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- What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps…
- We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to…
- A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has…
- [Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his…
- Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created…
- Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch…
- I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.
- Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what…
- And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.
- How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You…
- But you can't start over Only a boy can start over You and me Why, we're all that's been
- When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech…
- There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks…
- To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster…
- What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in…
- And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
- Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on…
- You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent…
- Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it.
- Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fences, and the…
- Do you take pride in your hurt?' Samuel asked. 'Does it make you seem large and tragic? . . . Maybe you're playing a part…
- When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.
- This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow…
- A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline again, but in…
- for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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