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- Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain…
- As belief shrinks from the world, it is more necessary than ever that someone believe. Wild-eyed men in caves. Nuns in black. Monks who do…
- Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.
- I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.
- Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from the world and…
- If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy…
- The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of…
- Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end,…
- How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people,…
- The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on…
- Her death would leave me scattered, talking to chairs and pillows. Don't let us die, I want to cry out to that fifth-century sky ablaze…
- There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and psyche. We eventually…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle