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- Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras,…
- The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but…
- Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it…
- The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be…
- We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
- Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws…
- When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.
- The greatest stories are those that resonate our beginnings and intuit our endings, our mysterious origins and our numinous destinies, and dissolve them both into…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong