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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly…
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No doubt, intuitions deserve respect. ...[but] I think that it is always up for grabs what an intuition is an intuition of.…
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There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.
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One-man-one-vote combined with "free entry" into government-democracy--implies that every person and his personal property comes within reach of-and is up for grabs…
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Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit. That's why you should never date a baseball player.
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It's far too late for anything but magick, as the future is clearly up for grabs.
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If it's something that reaches out and grabs me, I want to do it. I have a lot of trouble doing things…
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Its always when you think that youve lost a little of the baby weight that someone steps in grabs a handful of…
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We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet,…
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If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical…
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