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Other Quotes by Nicole Krauss
- The misery of other people is only an abstraction something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's own experiences. But as it…
- The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that they had been…
- I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people…
- Herman slipped his hand into mine, and I thought, An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not…
- Now we'd known each other for two years, the side of my calf was touching his shins, and his stomach was against my ribs. He…
- When you are young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close -- as close as you can…
- Our kiss was niticlimactic. It wasn't that the kiss was bad, but it was just a note of punctuation in our long conversation, a parenthetical…
- I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them, or, in other…
- One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadn’t, and…
- There are moments when a kind of clarity comes over you, and suddenly you can see through walls to another dimension that you'd forgotten or…
- We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of…
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