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- Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back because it came…
- No one’s forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick…
- When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people that you can…
- I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.
- To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.
- But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's…
- The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or…
- When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that…
- When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the…
- When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.
- I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it.
- In all my life I'd never been approached this way, the car pulling up, the Where you going? It was something I wish had happened…
- Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley below, all red…
- All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends…
- But what I really want is to just swim around in a warm baby pool of these friends, jump in their dry leaf pile-to rub…
- So I should be aware of the dangers of self-consciousness, but at the same time, I’ll be plowing through the fog of all these echoes,…
- Every part of my body felt electric. My chest ached and my head throbbed with the great terrible limitless possibility of the morning, and when…
- And we will be ready, at the end of every day will be ready, will not say no to anything, will try to stay awake…
- All I ever wanted was to know what to do.
- There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example. Every time something…
- In hospitals I feel palpable comfort. I feel the competence, the expertise, so much education and money, all of the supplies sterile, everything packaged, sealed…
- The voice of the nickly reflection of the moon was not as deep as you might expect. It was a singer’s voice, though, a tenor,…
- Then he got more books. He saved all the books.
- I am a freak in secondhand velour, a leper who uses L'Oreal Anti-sticky Mega Gel. I am rootless, ripped from all foundations, an orphan raising…
- We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day.
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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