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- There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my…
- Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down…
- A muddy little stream, a village grown unfamiliar with time and trees. I turn around and retrace my way up Main Street and park and…
- To try to save for everyone, for the hostile and independent as well as the committed, some of the health that flows down across the…
- Homesickness is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and like where I came…
- Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the gift. I believe…
- You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a…
- Is that the basis of friendship? Is it as reactive as that? Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?... Do…
- In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.
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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