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I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In…
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[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the…
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The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast…
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There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch.…
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If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to…
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The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar…
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and…
— Aldous Huxley
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It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the…
— Aeschylus
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Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace,…
— Cesare Pavese
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One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in other ways,…
— Jeff Cooper
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I am the fool, and must be the sufferer, if it be not of God.
— Joanna Southcott
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War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it…
— Simone Weil
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