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When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the…
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How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best? Summer burned…
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It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I…
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Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.
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I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice.
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It wasn't for children, seventh grade. You could read the stress of even entering the building in the postures of the teachers,…
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Nature, or at least birds and women, abhorred the invisible man.
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Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan.... Brooklyn might sometimes also…
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The kernel, the soul—let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances—is…
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All paths lead nowhere, choose one with heart,
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The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time *isn't*.
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The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our…
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It can be a way of knowledge, a path, an inspiration, a Tao, an ordering, a memory, a fantasy, a seduction, a…
— John Lanchester
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When men evaluate each other as men, they still look for the same virtues that they'd need to keep the perimeter. Men…
— Jack Donovan
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Possibly everyone will travel by air in another fifty years. I'm not sure I like the idea of millions of planes flying…
— Charles Lindbergh
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My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue!), A horrid…
— John Phillips
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The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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Power is of an encroaching nature.
— James Madison
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One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
— James K. Polk
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The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each…
— Dan Quayle
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Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing…
— Jonathan Lethem
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I attempted various types of plastic surgery, minutely but enough to stave off this encroaching middle-aged body. And every time I did,…
— Jamie Lee Curtis
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