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- The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to tormentor, just as…
- Nowadays, 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.
- When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about lots of it being pictures…
- I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.
- I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't…
- For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.
- ...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.
- In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time...I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all…
- People are locked up in all sorts of ways.
- For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around…
- It's all real in Outside, everything there is, because I saw an airplane in the blue between the clouds. Ma and me can't go there…
- We're standing on the deck that's all wooden like the deck of a ship. There's fuzz on it, little bundles. Grandma says it's some kind…
- ...Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we lowered our expectations.…
- There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling or…
- [E]verywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute,…
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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