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- All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.
- Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the…
- By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not…
- One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no…
- When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common.
- Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.
- All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.
- As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with the…
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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
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- 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