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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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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great…
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Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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(When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the…
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We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our…
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Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then 15? months…
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Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years…
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An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.
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Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a…
— Thomas Jefferson
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No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with…
— Michel de Montaigne
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So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon…
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