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- Choice, I've always believed, is all that separates us from animals.
- The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.
- It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's…
- It had occurred to Sean once - on a bender about ten years before with some buddies, Sean and a bloodstream full of bourbon turning…
- I held her, he wanted to say, and if I knew for certain that all it would take to hold her again would be to…
- Waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into…
- She smiled darkly and shook her head. 'I'm not crazy. I'm not. Of course what else would a crazy person claim? That's the Kafkaesque genius…
- When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He…
- And often the worst thing wasn't the victims--they were dead, after all, and beyond any more pain. The worst thing was those who loved them…
- Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do is cut off…
- My daughter squealed again and both Bubba and I winced. It’s not an attractive sound, that. It’s high-pitched and it enters your ear canals like…
- If you are deemed insane, then all actions that would oherwise prove you are not do, in actuality, fall into the framework of an insane…
- She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence who’d…
- How am I supposed to let you go, that's all I'm asking. I want to hold you again, smell you, and, yes too, I just…
- What's your name?" "Emma Gould," she said. "What's yours?" "Wanted." "By all the girls or just the law?
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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