Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
We were making 'Tragic Kingdom,' and we were kind of battling with the record company. It was just being drawn-out, in the… — Tony Kanal Copy Share Image
So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the… — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
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But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
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The part of [Oscar] Wilde was exceptionally important to me; the man, his achievements, his wisdom, but his downfall, his disgrace and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Joaquin Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the… — Elmer Kelton Copy Share Image
I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been… — Patsy Kensit Copy Share Image
Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare - whether nuclear or not - makes it totally unacceptable as a means of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The question does arise if how and why to write poetry in this time. It feels both completely essential and also quite… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
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Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
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Thanks to my ridiculous, sometimes tragic, and always unsteady upbringing, I was given the gift of bone-crushing insecurity. One thing you'll notice… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
'Fargo' is a tragedy with a happy ending. So you need to have that tragic underpinning, that all of this could be… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
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As the tragic writer rids us of what is petty and ignoble in our nature, so also the humorist rids us of… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
There is terrible suffering in our world today. Tragic things happen to good people. God does not cause them, nor does He… — Rex D. Pinegar Copy Share Image
Women and men just aren't that different. Oh, we're different in some intriguing ways, and it can be fun to band together… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
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It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
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Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
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Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill.… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
That such a perspective of the Declaration's 'Creator God' should sound so foreign and controversial to people today is a tragic and… — Pat Swindall Copy Share Image
To choose a writer for a friend is like palling around with your cardiologist, who might be musing as you talk to… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen… — Dominic Chianese Copy Share Image
Given that a few days ago we had a terrible accident, a tragic terrorist attack in Barajas, in Madrid, I would like… — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero Copy Share Image
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