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- People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember. Writers…
- New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining…
- Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.
- If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with…
- When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I…
- The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
- A young woman with long hair and a short white halter dress walks through the casino at the Riviera in Las Vegas at one in…
- The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it
- I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.
- I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've…
- To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose…
- We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought,…
- Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed…
- Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.
- Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty,…
- The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
- One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't…
- Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.
- Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one…
- The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.
- ...quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love…
- Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.
- People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in…
- One thing in my defense, not that it matters: I know something Carter never knew, or Helene, or maybe you. I know what "nothing" means,…
- Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl ever wounded, ever…
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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