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- Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the…
- Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.
- I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which we…
- But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of a working week.
- We had no irony when it came to girls, though. There was just no time to develop it. One moment they weren't there, not in…
- Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can…
- A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants…
- I'd stay there, or not, and I'd eat, or not, and I'd drink, or not, and go home, or not, and what I did or…
- We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful,…
- But what else can we do when we're so weak? We invest hours each day, months each year, years each lifetime in something over which…
- All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing…
- You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's…
- Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and…
- Because music, like color, or a cloud, is neither intelligent nor unintelligent - it just is. The chord, the simplest building block for even the…
- The non-fiction bestseller lists frequently prove that we all want to know more about everything, even if we didn't know that we wanted to know…
- I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our…
- All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of reading it. You…
- That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a…
- My own feeling about JJ, without knowing anything about him, was that he might have been a gay person, because he had long hair and…
- What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I…
- I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush…
- That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all
- We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and…
- I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will never read. I…
- Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed…
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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