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- Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all set against a…
- I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets:
- I am further back, surrounded on all sides by wailing men, their faces shiny with tears. Uncle Al promised three dollars and a bottle of…
- I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.
- Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room…
- Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.
- Sometimes when you get older — and I’m not talking about you, I’m talking generally, because everyone ages differently — things you think on and…
- Although there are times I'd give anything to have her back, I'm glad she went first. Losing her was like being cleft down the middle.…
- It's just a crazy damned life, that's all ...
- My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date. So what if…
- All right. Let's give you something to tell your grandkids about. Or great-grandkids. Or great-great-grandkids." I snort with glee, delirious with excitement. Charlie winks and…
- I was always searching, always seeking the next big thing, because that was the thing that was going to make everything all right again. And…
- But it all zipped by. One minute Marlena and I were up to our eyeballs, and the next thing we knew the kids were borrowing…
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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