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Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving the ground,…
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You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the…
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Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am…
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Of them all, it was the true love. Of them all, it was the best. That other sumptuous love which made one…
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Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may…
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There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility…
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Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the pocket of…
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It is always an accident that saves us. It is someone we have never seen.
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There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands.…
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I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love.
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But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside.…
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We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives...
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TV family sitcoms have always been about fathers who know best and mothers who are so enchanted with everything they do. I…
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In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.
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Do not judge others by your own standards, for everyone is making their way home, in the way they know best.
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Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are…
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Critics don't bother me because if I do badly, I know I'm bad before they even write it. And if I'm good,…
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My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she…
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We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.
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I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
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John Frances, Entertainment Chair, of the Friars Club: Of all the roasts that I have produced for the Friars Club, this is…
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