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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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There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.
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This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery…
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Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody always. Every single verse is very moving, and…
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There are so many great comedies, right now. I like how comedies are really mixing. They're not just one thing. It can…
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I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a…
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I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving.
— Shirley Manson
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I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was…
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I felt it very moving to feel his touch, and to remember that hands can also show love.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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