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- Sometimes we gotta be brave even when we're scared. We gotta not let being scared keep us from thinkin' straight. That's all brave is, boy,…
- In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny -…
- There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and…
- The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.
- I believe in whatever gets you throught the night. [...] Night is the hardest time to be alive. For me, anyway. It lasts so long,…
- Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.
- When you have too much faith in something, it's bound to hurt you. Too much faith in anything will suck you dry. In this way,…
- All at once it hit him: this was power too, just as surely as smashing your fist into someone’s face, just as surely as putting…
- I don't think it is possible to give tips for finding one's voice; it's one of those things for which there aren't really any tricks…
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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