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- Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you…
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not…
- Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that…
- I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I…
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,' or 'Nobody under…
- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not…
- Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's…
- The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel.…
- Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in,…
- For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control.... I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go…
- And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look…
- I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not know that to…
- I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing…. I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object,…
- The world is being run by people my age, men my age, with falling-out hair and health worries, and it frightens me. When the leaders…
- As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to…
- No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more…
- If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.
- I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.
- When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away.…
- at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners of rooms, portraits…
- A wave of blood goes up to my head, my stomach shrinks together, as if something dangerous has just missed hitting me. It's as if…
- What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is…
- People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is…
- Now that I am dead, I know everything.
- Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a…
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- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. — Pietro Aretino
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach
- A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong