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- I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with…
- Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is…
- Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our…
- The prostitutes worked for a pimp now. He was splendid and cruel. He was a god to them. He took their free will away from…
- During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable artist in this…
- Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.
- . . . hummings and clickings could be heard-the sounds attendant to the flow of electrons, now augmenting one maze of electromagnetic crises to a…
- Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God.
- While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly…
- They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they…
- Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow...
- ... there is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life ...
- Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't…
- I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of…
- It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
- Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and…
- When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up…
- The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads.…
- Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
- Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else,…
- Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
- There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so…
- Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This was a tool…
- There is a riddle about a man who is locked in a room with nothing but a bed and a calendar, and the question is:…
- Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.
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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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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
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- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle