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- Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love more than most…
- Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy.
- I act most like myself... when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year.
- I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse.
- I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get.
- I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this kid whose Dominicanness…
- The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it takes…
- There are a couple of strategies for writing about an absence or writing about a loss. One can create the person that was lost, develop…
- Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have…
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- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster