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- I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having…
- Any father…must finally give his child up to the wilderness and trust to the providence of God. It seems almost a cruelty for one generation…
- She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord . . .…
- Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable and finally has come to look and not to buy. So shoes…
- Ascension seemed at such times a natural law. If one added to it a law of completion - that everything must finally be made comprehensible…
- I find that the hardest work in the world... is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling.
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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