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- I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.
- A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They…
- I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long…
- Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.
- From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the…
- Jill felt an emptiness open inside of her as she lifted her arm, a sense that something vital was being subtracted from her life. It…
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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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- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle