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- People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust, delicate, muscular. This…
- Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday. If…
- Jason Oliver C. Smith, a big dumb guy who was tan, died March 30 of lung cancer and old age. He was 13 years old…
- I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough…
- The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know…
- And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely…
- The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into…
- Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to you…
- Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came…
- This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.
- [After my mother died, I had a feeling that was] not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few days when I…
- I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster