Lance Morrow Quotes
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Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack…
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Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.
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Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate.
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The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American…
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People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.
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The kiss is a wordless articulation of desire whose object lies in the future, and somewhat to the south.
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As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace.…
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Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.
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Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.
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For now, we assume that self-evolving robots will learn to mimic human traits, including, eventually, humor. And so, I can't wait to hear the first…
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Walter Duranty helped to turn the monster Stalin into a world figure and a hero of the leftistWestern intelligentsia by defending the bloodbath of the…
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One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying…
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Never try to wear a hat that has more character than you do.
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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old…
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The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.
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Music is the way our memories sing to us across time.
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Forgiveness frees the forgiver.
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A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them…
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