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- The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other…
- This is the sixty-nine," I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers -- two of them -- on the…
- The disgraced Usurer Yankel D took the baby girl home that evening... He made a bed of crumpled newspaper in a deep baking pan and…
- [Grandfather] would manufacture funnies with Grandmother before she died about how he was in love with other women who were not her. She knew it…
- Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing.
- Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do…
- I'm a vegetarian. You're a what? I don't eat meat. How can you not eat meat? I just don't. He says he does not eat…
- I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn't recognize it. It's not that I didn't trust him, becuase I…
- Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because…
- Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become…
- ...because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't stop himself from…
- I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides…
- I can't even say 'hair pie,'' I told him, 'unless I'm talking about an actual pie made out of rabbits....
- There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
- I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words…
- The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present.
- Or perhaps a widow found him and took him in: brought him an easy chair, changed his sweater every morning, shaved his face until the…
- Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only…
- Well, let me leave it at this: if God does exist, He would have a great deal be sad about. And if He doesn’t exist,…
- He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make…
- [She] always knew he was a fiction but believed in him anyway.
- [S]o if the device of the person in the ambulance detected the device of the person he loved the most, or the person who loved…
- In the past seven years of love-making he had heard the words "I love you" so many times: from the mouths of widows and children,…
- He was not such a special person. He loved to read very much, and also to write. He was a poet, and he exhibited me…
- My boots were so heavy that I was glad there was a column beneath us. How could such a lonely person have been living so…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden