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I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all… — Annie Dillard
Dissident Natan Sharansky writes that there are two kinds of states -- "fear societies" and "free societies," two kinds of consciousness. The consciousness derived of… — Naomi Wolf
I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the… — Joyce Carol Oates
Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about… — Michael Crichton
Whoever had decided that school should start so early in the morning and last all day long needed to be hunted down and forced to… — Heather Brewer
Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly… — Viktor E. Frankl
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must… — Robert A. Heinlein
...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states… — Hermann Hesse
I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better than average at clever remarks,… — Jeff Lindsay
The more I write, the more I've come to realize that books have a different place in our society than other media. Books are different… — Joe Meno
If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. — John Dos Passos
The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it. — Banana Yoshimoto
All America loses when any person is denied or forced out of a job because of sexual orientation. Being gay, the last time I thought… — William J. Clinton
Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it. — T.H. White
Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. — Paulo Coelho
They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room… — Sara Gruen
Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of the waking world… — Cormac McCarthy
Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they… — John Irving
Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour. — Augusten Burroughs
Stay here til I come to fetch you." I no longer recognize you in the Republic of Joy," I loftily informed him. "Our diplomatic ties… — Katie MacAlister
Because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be a man: deny… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it. — Peter Drucker
There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But… — George Bernard Shaw

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