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- When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language
- Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front…
- I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and…
- And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known…
- Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't…
- There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and…
- You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all…
- This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.
- All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people…
- When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long…
- In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
- All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.
- They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other.... or when they occasionally got together. And when they were…
- If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good.…
- In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals,…
- She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.
- Life," Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have…
- I have stood aside to see the phantoms of those days go by me. They are gone, and I resume the journey of my story.’…
- All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let's just leave them be. Don't judge them. You are not superior to them -…
- I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things being one day here and…
- I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then…
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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