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- I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked…
- When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never…
- I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were. If you saw one you'll know what I mean. Remember after…
- I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
- When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up…
- People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.
- We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to…
- All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
- Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box…
- Look now -- in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man…
- I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.
- And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.
- Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and…
- But you can't start over Only a boy can start over You and me Why, we're all that's been
- But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty…
- All great and precious things are lonely.
- Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.
- I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments
- The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over…
- You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.
- To be alive at all is to have scars.
- Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time…
- Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fences, and the…
- Do you take pride in your hurt?' Samuel asked. 'Does it make you seem large and tragic? . . . Maybe you're playing a part…
- Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.
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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
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — 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