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- I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.
- I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.
- All cities are impressive in their way, because they represent the aspiration of men to lead a common life; those people who wish to live…
- I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words…
- In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I'm like that old Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All There Is?' I want to…
- My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to…
- I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot…
- The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.
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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
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- 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
- 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
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — 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
- I realize my mistake when I lost you in the crowd. I felt the pain n loneliness when I lost you. U… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes