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- You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of…
- I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
- And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.
- If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died,…
- Something has happened, hasn't it? ... It's like being up close to something so large you don't even see it. Even now, I'm not sure…
- Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong