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- Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.
- Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.
- We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.
- I think whenever we think of our hometowns, we tend to think of very specific people: with whom you rode on the school bus, who…
- I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the…
- If my favorite, most comfortable place is by our fireplace in cold weather, expedient places are on an airplane, in a waiting room or even…
- The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our…
- We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we…
- When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke,…
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- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- 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
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
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