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- Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic,…
- New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining…
- We all survive more than we think we can,
- The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
- We all have the same dreams.
- Outside, a ceiling of pearly gray clouds coalesced over Manhattan, and the apartment had grown dark. It just keeps dripping. It's been like this all…
- Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
- We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
- Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.
- Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all…
- Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one…
- ...quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love…
- That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact…
- prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if they would care…
- I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates of the people,…
- I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to…
- Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl ever wounded, ever…
- we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we…
- [O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary…
- What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by…
- I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?
- What does it cost to lose those weeks, that light, the very nights in the year preferred over all others? Can you evade the dying…
- We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered…
- Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum…
- The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal…
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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