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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software,…
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself…
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on…
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as…
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free,…
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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore…
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time…
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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the…
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long,…
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind…
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I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.
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But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself…
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Writing well isn't just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found…
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Everything that enters our field of perception means something, large or small. Everything speaks to us, if we will take off our…
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A soul-based workplace asks things of me that I didn't even know I had. It's constantly telling me that I belong to…
— David Whyte
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I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to…
— Edie Falco
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As God’s chosen, blessed sons and daughters, we are expected to attempt something large enough that failure is guaranteed…unless God steps in.
— Bruce Wilkinson
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She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and…
— James Joyce
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It has occasionally been remarked upon that it is as easy to overlook something large and obvious as it is to overlook…
— Neil Gaiman
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