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- One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to me without using…
- Sometimes we have to be judged by our one-offs.
- Did you know that Jacques Benveniste, one of the world's leading homeopathic 'scientists', now claims that you can email homeopathic remedies? Yeah, see, what you…
- Record stores can't save your life. But they can give you a better one.
- We had no irony when it came to girls, though. There was just no time to develop it. One moment they weren't there, not in…
- Human beings are millions of things in one day.
- One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect.
- One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection.
- We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful,…
- I'd thought I'd live with my wife, but I couldn't find one.
- Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.
- I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very…
- There are many differences between a baby and an I-Pod. And one of the biggest is, no ones going to mug you for your baby.
- To me, making a tape is like writing a letter – there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it…
- In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me!
- I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic.
- You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like…
- So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that, when reading is…
- [about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this marvellous place when…
- I used to believe, although I don't now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes. Now it seems…
- Why does reading freak people out so much? Sure, I could be pretty anti-social when we were on the road, but if I was playing…
- I may not know the weight of those things, but I could feel the weight of that one, so I kept it to myself. You…
- Tuesday night I reorganized my record collection. I often do this at periods of emotional stress. There are some people who would find this a…
- She was trying to say something else; she was trying to say that the inability to articulate what one feels in any satisfactory way is…
- One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed…
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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