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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other…
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it…
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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so…
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed…
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not…
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow…
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
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Since there is no such thing as absolute rightness and truth, we always pursue the artificial, leading, human truth. We judge and…
— Gerhard Richter
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Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.
— Austin O'Malley
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Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have.…
— Frederick Buechner
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This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be…
— Bill Frist
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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must…
— Oriana Fallaci
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The act of sending a letter is an act of generosity, even if, in retrospect, it might seem reckless. Why regret one's…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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To Thetis, Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That…
— Richelle Mead
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A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth…
— Jeff Lindsay
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