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- When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
- Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets seem able to…
- Early in life, the world divides crudely into those who have had sex and those who haven't. Later, into those who have known love, and…
- I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and…
- If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to form…
- (on grief) And you do come out of it, that’s true. After a year, after five. But you don’t come out of it like a…
- The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They may…
- This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use; back then it was a 'broken home'...
- When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different…
- In those days, we imagined ourselves as being kept in some kind of holding pen, waiting to be released into our lives. And when the…
- He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if they followed, would…
- If you’re that clever you can argue yourself into anything.
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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