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- Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why you shouldn't do…
- Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?
- Why are entire flocks of industrial birds dying at once? And what about the people eating those birds? Just the other day, one of the…
- Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write…
- Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
- This is the sixty-nine," I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers -- two of them -- on the…
- Why I'm Not Where You Are
- Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.
- Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to…
- Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do…
- I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked chess, I asked…
- Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because…
- Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
- A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things…
- Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.
- Cher Marcel, Allô. I am Oskar's mom. I have thought about it a ton, and I have decided that it isn't obvious why Oskar should…
- It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone…
- Why didn't he say goodbye? I gave myself a bruise. Why didn't he say 'I love you'?
- I said, 'I need to know how he died.' He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?' So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm…
- (You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You are wrong. Family…
- Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his thoughts orbit his…
- And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed. You need to…
- I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?
- The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
- I put my hand on him. Touching him has always been important to me, it was something I lived for. I never could explain why.…
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- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. — Frank Abagnale
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very… — Bashar al-Assad
- What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they… — David Attenborough
- The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to… — David Attenborough
- It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying… — David Attenborough
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood