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- There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that.
- The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly, never finding what you want,…
- Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of…
- Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey and…
- The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have…
- Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art,…
- Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
- The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
- I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised by sudden gains…
- Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you…
- Make three wishes and they shall all come true. Make three hundred and I will honour every one
- To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
- Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.
- We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
- With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.
- Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then…
- I struggled in my mind with all kinds of defenses. Should I be hurt? Surprised? Should I laugh it off? I wanted to say something…
- I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and…
- For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel.…
- Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that has happened since time began. Of…
- Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in…
- Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all…
- Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible.
- I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end.
- In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different energies…
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- 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
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- 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