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- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
- I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.
- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
- Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's…
- Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage…
- About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives.
- You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there's no free lunch. Writing is work.…
- You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote…
- If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of…
- No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more…
- What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we…
- I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever…
- He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a…
- When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away.…
- What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise…
- You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you
- The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth will trickle own,…
- What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is…
- Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start…
- At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.
- We have begun to slam doors, and to throw things. I throw my purse, an ashtray, a package of chocolate chips, which breaks on impact.…
- I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.
- Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back…
- When they came to harvest my corpse (open your mouth, close your eyes) cut my body from the rope, surprise, surprise: I was still alive.…
- But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov