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- All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.
- The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
- If you look at life as a whole, we have to admit life's good where we live. But in an evil Twilight Zone kind of…
- Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people…
- You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact…
- Kids today do nothing. They're so apathetic. We used to go out and protest. All they do is shop and complain.
- If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling…
- When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to…
- The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at…
- All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.
- In our heads we're all about 33 years old.
- Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
- Could the situation be that we no longer believe in that particular place? Or maybe we were all promised Heaven in our lifetimes, and what…
- maybe memories are like karaoke-where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at…
- I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad,…
- We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to…
- This was not a good idea coming home for Christmas. I'm too old. Years ago, coming back from schools or trips, I always expected some…
- And in his heart, I think, he's now learned what I came to believe, which is, as I've said all along, that the sun may…
- I sandpapered the roof of my mouth with 3 bowls of Cap'n Crunch - had raw gobbets of mouth-beef dangling onto my tongue all day
- I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more…
- When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun—that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the…
- All systems have failed me. In five minutes I'll be fine again for a while, but right now the inside of my head feels like…
- Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and…
- We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this -…
- You guys just wait and see. We'll stand taller than these mountains. We'll bare open our hearts for the world to grab. We'll see lights…
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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