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- One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
- One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have…
- A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
- A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her…
- Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion…
- In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed so obvious now…
- And now she was back in the world, not one she could make, but the one that had made her, and she felt herself shrinking…
- No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.
- Who you get, and how it works out- there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice of…
- How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or…
- It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that they will…
- Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen. She repeated them, with exactly…
- I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life. Cee
- In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree... Leon turned…
- one could drown in irrelevance.
- He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end.
- No one knew about the squirrel’s skull beneath her bed, but no one wanted to know.
- Cecilia wondered, as she sometimes did when she met a man for the first time, if this was the one she was going to marry,…
- Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that no…
- I’ll wait for you. Come back. The words were not meaningless, but they didn’t touch him now. It was clear enough - one person waiting…
- I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for a something, version of myself, a heroine I…
- Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to…
- Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, wild leaps, and this was one of those.
- The trouble with being a daydreamer who doesn’t say much is that the teachers at school, especially those who don’t know you very well, are…
- Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence
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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