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- We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten…
- Looking around, I thought the human species was in fine shape and tried to think of something more beautiful than women and couldn't come up…
- There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more…
- She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison,…
- What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But…
- Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies…
- There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
- Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your…
- In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
- There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it…
- Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle