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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
— Samuel Beckett
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The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a…
— Andre Michel Lwoff
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I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Is beauty a reminder of something we once knew, with poetry one of its vehicles? Does it give us a brief vision…
— Patricia K Page
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And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about…
— Ogden Nash
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I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that…
— Kim Novak
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Floyd Skloot’s Revertigo is a beautifully-written, moving account of one man’s off kilter life. Who would have imaged a memoir exploring months…
— Dinty W. Moore
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A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over…
— Mignon McLaughlin
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The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to…
— Susan Sontag
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I have a condition called Menieres disease which is a problem with fluid retention in the inner ear. It has four symptoms:…
— Katie Leclerc
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My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which…
— Ben Affleck
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It gives me vertigo to watch TV dramas.
— Bruno Heller
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