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One Quotes by Alice Munro
- It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, "Read," but a writer can read too…
- I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I…
- People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going…
- When I told him on the phone that after all you and I would not be getting married, he said "Oh-oh. Do you think you'll…
- And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down…
- In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
- It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great…
- She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug of weak herb…
- One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning.
- I just believed it easily, the way you might believe and in fact remember that you once had another set of teeth, now vanished but…
- What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to…
- Hatred is always a sin, my mother told me. Remember that. One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a…
- people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — 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 defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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