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One Quotes by Anne Fadiman
- One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.
- In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
- I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.
- One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that…
- When the Irish novelist John McGahern was a child, his sisters unlaced and removed one of his shoes while he was reading. He did not…
- I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of things but where edges meet. I like shorelines, weather…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle