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Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you…
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I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels…
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I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa,…
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It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic…
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Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.
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Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.
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Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.
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High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted'…
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I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for…
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My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.
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A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul…
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A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as…
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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved…
— Lord Byron
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Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
— Samuel Daniel
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All thy old woes shall now smile on thee, and thy pains sit bright on thee. All thy sorrows here shall shine…
— Richard Crashaw
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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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Their woes gone by, and both to heaven upflown, To bow for gratitude before Jove's throne.
— John Keats
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Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even…
— Johann Arndt
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In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is…
— Richard Sibbes
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Belief, humble belief, is the foundation of all righteousness and the beginning of spiritual progression. It goes before good works, opens the…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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Healing of the world's woes will not come through this or that social or political theory; not through violent changes in government,…
— Unknown Author
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If a wave of service sweeps over the land, catching everyone in its enthusiasm, it will be able to wipe off the…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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