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- When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still…
- How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best? Summer burned just a few…
- The kernel, the soul—let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances—is plagiarism,
- All paths lead nowhere, choose one with heart,
- Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.
- I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a…
- As a child growing up in pre-gentrification Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, I went everywhere by bicycle. My bike was in many ways the key to my…
- Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can’t have. And then about what you receive and misuse.
- I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes…
- I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they…
- Those promises we make to ourselves when we are younger, about how we mean to conduct our adult lives, can it be true we break…
- Anyone could see it all coming and no one could possibly stop it and that was the beautiful thing. Friday night was open wide and…
- You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.
- Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.
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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
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- 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