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One Quotes by David Rakoff
- But if one's dreams having to come true was the only referendum on whether they were beautiful, or worth dreaming, well then, no one would…
- You can't win all the contests and then lose at one contest and say, 'Why am I not winning this contest as well?' It's random.…
- Have you ever had one of those moments when you know that you're being visited by your own future? They come so rarely and with…
- The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous…
- Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice does one really have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop…
- There are many things in this world that are an outrage, to be sure, but death at our current life expectancy doesn’t strike me as…
- Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state:…
- Unless one is planning to go shopping - basically begging to be smothered by the ravening throngs of returners and bargain hunters; an embrace as…
- Deprived of the opportunity to judge one another by the cars we drive, New Yorkers, thrown together daily on mass transit, form silent opinions based…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — 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
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster