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- I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene…
- Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that…
- But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see the world through…
- I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same…
- I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of…
- When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead…
- happened as I listened: I felt pain. Not in my head, not in my arm, not in my leg; everywhere at once. I told myself…
- Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is…
- We stand there, quiet. My questions all seem wrong: How did you get so old? Was it all at once, in a day, or did…
- She was clean": no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, after watching three generations of…
- There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing.
- I felt no shame in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only an infinitesimal difference,…
- I picture it like Judgement Day,' he says finally, his eyes on the water. 'We'll rise up out of our bodies and find each other…
- and it’s all kind of moving and sweet except that you’re not completely there—a part of you is a few feet away, or above, thinking,
- Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners…
- I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I do that is…
- I was obsessed with The Who. I would have accepted a marriage proposal from Roger Daltrey on the spot. I went to all of their…
- When I first had a child, I really had a hard time trying to figure out how it was all going to fit together. Because…
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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
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- 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