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- Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known…
- In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us…
- All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind
- Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans.
- I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we…
- You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your…
- I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let…
- There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One of the biggest transformations we have seen in our society is…
- You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it...…
- …we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.
- He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let myself get mixed…
- But the actual touch of her lingered, inside his heart. That remained. In all the years of his life ahead, the long years without her,…
- In Washington and Moscow they are saying, 'Man has finally come of age; he doesn't need paternalistic help.' Which is another way of saying, 'We…
- I'm not much but I'm all I have.
- We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the content of the information; the message has changed. This is a language which…
- The inanity of her remark infuriated him. 'Good grief don't you understand Janet? At this point I'm thoroughly delusional. I'm as mentally ill as it's…
- Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't...Nothing is going on…
- He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside.
- Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined... or one great figure... or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance.…
- Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.' 'Will you be all right?' 'I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm…
- Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair.
- I mean, after all, you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn't forget…
- Why is love so good...? You love someone and they leave. They come home one day and you say "What's happening?" and they say, "I…
- Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you’re afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always,…
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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