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- It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if…
- Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or…
- If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human…
- Don't just plan to write - write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.
- It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.
- In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age that…
- Perhaps it's only when people are dead that we can safely show how much we cared about them. We know that it's too late then…
- Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.
- It is surely unreasonable to credit that only one small star in the immensity of the universe is capable of developing and supporting intelligent life.…
- Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.
- I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true,…
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