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- There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least…
- If you can remember all the accessories that go with your best outfit, the contents of your purse, the starting lineup of the New York…
- As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.
- What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did? There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not…
- And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark like magic mushrooms. Call it the…
- They were nice enough people and all, but there wasn't much love in them. Because they were too busy being afraid. Love didn't grow very…
- You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane. And I think…
- It's exciting and it's thrilling and it's not particularly threatening, because they're not overtly sexual. A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed…
- Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of…
- I have no opinion. No, none at all. Opinion is politics, and politics is an evil which has caused many a fellow to be hung…
- The quiet, singing voice of the rose. The song that promised all might be well, all might be well, that all manner of things might…
- Isn't it too bad that the great truths are all such lies.
- All you need to do is hold on tight...and believe.
- But you don't do it. Because guys like us, Red, we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure or bathing in the…
- I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing
- It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.
- Semi-automatic s have only two purposes. One is so owners can take them to the shooting range once in a while, yell yeehaw, and get…
- A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over…
- The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come ajar... and now…
- Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters…
- But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.
- The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in…
- The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well. I do not…
- The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun.
- I don't have nightmares; I give them all to you.
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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