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- Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your…
- The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.
- I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.
- The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under…
- I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will…
- My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally,…
- The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
- There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs…
- If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg and singing 'When…
- Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure.…
- Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to…
- The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to…
- It's silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting to take into…
- All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it…
- As a child, I was airlifted out of the path of the Nazis. Unfortunately, I was parachuted into the path of the Japanese, but then…
- My life is sectioned off into hot flushes, pursuits of this or that.
- I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I must write 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
- 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