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- I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the door. Falling from…
- Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats and emphases go.…
- There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true…
- I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers.
- We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.
- We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
- We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the people,…
- Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty,…
- We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.
- The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God.
- When I walk with a camera, I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk without a camera,…
- Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies.
- All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.
- I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read.
- Hasidism has a tradition that one of man's purposes is to assist God in the work of redemption by "hallowing" the things of creation. By…
- It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing…
- A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
- I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
- Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.
- It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a…
- Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all,…
- The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
- It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special curse from Malevolence.…
- No, the point is not only does time fly and do we die, but that in these reckless conditions we live at all, and are…
- The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle