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Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.
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When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen…
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Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.
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There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the…
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A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.
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Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience…
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Beneath every history, another history.
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Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.
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I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! But then the gaps would emerge that…
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He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing…
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Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.
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A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on…
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A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.
— Hilary Mantel
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A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt…
— Thomas Carlyle
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If you wish to feign confusion in order to lure the enemy on, you must first have perfect discipline; if you wish…
— Du Mu
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The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.
— William Shakespeare
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One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great or small, is to open the heart and lay bare its suggestion, likings,…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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You would think after all the hours I’d spent with Gale– watching him talk and laugh and frown– that I would know…
— Suzanne Collins
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Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,” he once wrote. “Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty,…
— Michael Lewis
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Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually…
— Nhat Hanh
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Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.
— Sri Chinmoy
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