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- I really believed that anything at all was worth writing about if you cared about it enough, and that the best and only necessary justification…
- Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone…
- Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.
- The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has…
- Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.
- I was never any good at remembering dates, but now I hardly have to. When the first bulb catalogs get delivered and the hens start…
- Every single one of my books had its title changed almost as we were going to press, for all sorts of different reasons.
- Keeping animals, I have learned, is all about water. Who even knew chickens drank water? I didn't, but they do, and a lot.
- On the very same day that I ordered an iPad 2, I went shopping to buy myself a letter opener. I like to cover all…
- When I was a kid, phone calls were a premium commodity; only the very coolest kids had a phone line of their own, and long-distance…
- College athletics are so entrenched and enjoyed by so many people that they will never be discontinued or substantially changed. I know that. I just…
- I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training…
- I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of…
- I've always been afraid of video games - not afraid that I wouldn't like them, but that I would like them too much, and that…
- I've noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to make it feel…
- In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself…
- Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us; that's the gilded glow of technology, and…
- There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy…
- Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on the big mounds from the…
- The semiology and phenomenology of hashtaggery intrigues me. From what I understand, it all began very simply: on Twitter, hashtags - those little checkerboard marks…
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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
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- 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
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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