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- Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit…
- All fat women look the same; they all look 42.
- A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's…
- You always think, 'Oh, if only I had a little chalet in the mountains! How great that would be and I'd do all this writing'…
- Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.
- Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
- Imagine a famine. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the same room with…
- Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.
- A wave of blood goes up to my head, my stomach shrinks together, as if something dangerous has just missed hitting me. It's as if…
- I feel despised there, for having so little money; also for once having had so much. I never actually had it, of course. Father had…
- 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…
- People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is…
- He stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face. We look at each other. I have no…
- What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.
- When demons are required someone will always be found to supply the part, and whether you step forward or are pushed is all the same…
- They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did…
- 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.…
- If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.
- 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…
- expectation isn't the same as desire
- She had her reasons. Not that they were the same as anybody else's reasons.
- Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on…
- If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a…
- Soon it will be daybreak. Soon the day will break. I can't stop it from breaking in the same way it always does, and then…
- Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term…
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten. — J. J. Abrams
- Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov
- You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them. — David Attenborough
- It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying… — David Attenborough
- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it… — David Attenborough
- Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people… — Margaret Atwood