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- Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges. but I was…
- There were many moments in the Vine like that one--where you might think today was yesterday, and yesterday was tomorrow, and so on. Because we…
- All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.
- You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.
- There's so much goop inside of us, man," he said, "and it all just wants to get out.
- That world! These days it's all been erased and they've rolled it up like a scroll and put it away somewhere. Yes, I can touch…
- All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for…
- The traveling salesmen fed me pills that made the lining of my veins feel scraped out, my jaw ached... I knew every raindrop by its…
- When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something…
- And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person’s life on this earth. I don’t mean that we all end up dead,…
- All his life Robert Grainier would remember vividly the burned valley at sundown, the most dreamlike business he’d ever witnessed waking—the brilliant pastels of the…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt