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- All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.
- I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity,…
- I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the window.
- I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't occur to me…
- So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course,…
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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