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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
— Edward Abbey
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag…
— Jean Baudrillard
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For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.
— Aeschylus
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The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
— Thomas Paine
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The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or…
— Iris Murdoch
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Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to…
— Albert Einstein
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The rich women, to avoid dividing the inheritance among many, kill their own fetus in the womb and with murderous juices extinguish…
— Ambrose
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...the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies…
— Karl Marx
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Man has been condemning women. Perhaps there is a reason; perhaps he was aware of some superiority in woman - the superiority…
— Rajneesh
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If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more…
— Unknown Author
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A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become…
— Freeman Dyson
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So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war of defence…
— Harold Lasswell
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