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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has…
— Hannah Arendt
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We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations…
— Franklin P. Adams
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For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history…
— Cory Booker
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We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and…
— James Lee Burke
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After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of…
— David Cameron
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Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua…
— Stephen Ambrose
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Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
— Maya Angelou
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So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.
— Tupac Shakur
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The simple fact is that we must not-and we will not-surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of…
— William J. Clinton
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The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important…
— Maya Angelou
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When "news stories" are broken, do we not expect a certain amount of fact-checking or source-checking? One has to ask if this…
— Sheryl Crow
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Let me remind you that you have a two-fold task to perform. With the force of arms and at the cost of…
— Subhas Chandra Bose
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