Jesse Ball Quotes

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• The old man began to sing. His voice was very lovely and obviously a part of something that the world had disposed of in its…
• In searching for a way out of my own troubles, I had found my way into the troubles of others, some long gone, and now…
• That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!
• Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.
• One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition. It is simplistic to produce…
• It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought…
• I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist,…
• Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you…
• …There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation involved, no measure of the…
• If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.
• Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?
• First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside one's door. No, that is…
• I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

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