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- It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I realize…
- My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people…
- Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into…
- Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face.
- Einstein wrote that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That said, is it crazier to repeatedly throw…
- Weird doors open. People fall into things.
- His embarassment would have pleased me, but once he recovered, there would be that awkward period that sometimes culminates in a handshake. I didn't want…
- Watching him was like opening the door to a siniging telegram; you know it's supposed to be entertaining, but you can't get beyond the sad…
- Living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person,…
- There’s a lot I don’t tell my father when he calls asking after Amy. He wouldn’t understand that she has no interest in getting married…
- Listen, you might want to pack a few of your things together before going to bed. The former bishop of Turkey will be coming tonight…
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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
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong