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- So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.
- Maybe all wondrous books appear in our lives the way Milo’s tollbooth appears, an inexplicable gift, cast up by some curious chance that comes to…
- He took a step toward her, than another, tentatively, gathering all his strength, as though about to throw a heavy switch that would, if his…
- I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman -…
- Dr. Roboy, in Litvak's measured view, had a vice common to believers: He was all strategy and no tactics. He was prone to move for…
- People keep saying, 'Oh, you're getting all these great reviews, that must make you really happy.' I guess it does, but mostly it's just a…
- I knew that I shouldn’t have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my…
- I don’t mean to make a big deal out of sobriety, by the way. Of all the modes of human consciousness available to the modern…
- The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart.
- All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.
- I thought, I fanced, that in a moment, I would be standing on nothing at all, and for the first time in my life, I…
- When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches, smelled another's skin,…
- All male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey,…
- The first and last duty of the lover of the game of baseball," Peavine's book began, "whether in the stands or on the field, is…
- [My dad] didn't do much apart from the traditional winning of bread. He didn't take me to get my hair cut or my teeth cleaned;…
- It was the kind of promise a father makes easily and sincerely, knowing at the same time that it will be impossible to keep. The…
- All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction....Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the stories that were…
- The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victim—even if he or she writes at dawn, or in the…
- That was all very nice of them. They didn't have to do anything because I wasn't officially involved at all.
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- 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
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes