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- Now, we don't really believe these things - intellectually we know better - but we believe them viscerally, and live by them, and they cause…
- Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They were manifesting as…
- From across the woods, as if by common accord, birds left their trees and darted upward. I joined them, flew amount them, they did not…
- Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when…
- When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same…
- Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at…
- To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right…
- ...There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of things there is no…
- This may be the one clear truth of the so-called border issue: Put a poor country next to a rich one and watch which way…
- A culture's ability to understand the world and itself is critical to its survival. But today we are led into the arena of public debate…
- America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not…
- I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes more pleasure…
- What America is, to me, is a guy doesn't want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy has…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster