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- The punishment – to the body, the brain, the spirit – a man must endure to become even a moderately good boxer is inconceivable to…
- Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of obscurity,…
- Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.
- Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.
- 'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes…
- After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate…
- I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high,…
- If my favorite, most comfortable place is by our fireplace in cold weather, expedient places are on an airplane, in a waiting room or even…
- Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated…
- Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is the most haunting…
- The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review…
- Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: 'Keep trying, don't…
- Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is…
- A daydreamer is prepared for most things.
- . . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always…
- For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.
- There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence,…
- The most common misperception about me is that I write fast. I just write often. Every hour that I can.
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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