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Men Quotes by Joan Didion
- It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want,…
- I found earthquakes, even when I was in them, deeply satisfying, abruptly revealed evidence of the scheme in action. That the schemes could destroy the…
- We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought,…
- I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval…
- But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions, an empty place…
- As it happened, I didn't grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although the men I…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
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