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- When we make a change, it's so easy to interpret our unsettledness as unhappiness, and our unhappiness as a result of having made the wrong…
- Words like passion and ecstasy, we learn them but they stay flat on the page. Sometimes we try to turn them over, find out what's…
- I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies – unconscious strategies – to keep those feelings away. We do a…
- London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
- I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have…
- I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married…
- When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.
- Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness…
- In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different energies…
- It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.
- live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the…
- Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together they make a…
- Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past…
- When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No one can legislate…
- Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know…
- In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. This place will warm me, feed me and care…
- I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what…
- Don't you think it's strange that life, described as so rich and full, a camel-trail of adventure, should shrink to this coin-sized world? A head…
- You said, 'I'm going to leave him because my love for you makes any other life a lie.' I've hidden these words in the lining…
- I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture…
- She said she’d often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was obvious with some…
- We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the…
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour