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- I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.
- We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer…
- The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the…
- Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.
- Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of…
- We are most alive when we're in love.
- Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
- The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration…
- I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of…
- We are most alive when we're inlove.
More Most Quotes
- 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