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- Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out that they've been waiting rather…
- One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he asked the right…
- The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws,…
- I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.
- Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do,…
- I have reared, or helped to rear, five children and the scariest bit, bar none, is the learning-to-drive part. It has filled me with anxiety…
- In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured…
- In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle