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- I feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning.
- A young person, or someone who's writing in a different way - in some ways you could say, eventually someone will find them. Eventually someone…
- I guess I'm just hopelessly fascinated by the realities that you can assemble out of connected fragments.
- I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.
- I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the…
- Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me…
- The only way out is in.
- We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If…
- But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.
- On the outside, Oscar simply looked tired, no taller, no fatter, only the skin under his eyes, pouched from years of quiet desperation, had changed.…
- A first lesson in the fragility of love and the preternatural cowardice of men. And out of this disillusionment and turmoil sprang Beli's first adult…
- You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma…
- Poor Oscar. Without even realizing it he'd fallen into one of those Let's Be Friends Vortexes, the bane of nerdboys everywhere. These relationships were love's…
- Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time…
- Ana Iris once asked me if I loved him and I told her about the lights in my old home in the capital, how they…
- You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture. That's what happened with your…
- In another universe I probably came out OK, ended up with mad novias and jobs and a sea of love in which to swim, but…
- We're on speaking terms today. I say, Maybe we should hang out with the boys, and you shake your head. I want to spend time…
- Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.
- You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
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- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster