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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power…
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Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt…
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In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there…
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Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power.
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Whether our feet are compressed in iron shoes, our faces hidden with veils and masks; whether yoked with cows to draw the…
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I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the…
— Alicia Ostriker
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A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble
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What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle…
— Caspar David Friedrich
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Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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Poets talk about "spots of time", but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can…
— Norman Maclean
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Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm.…
— Murray Rothbard
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Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at…
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