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Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.
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When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen…
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Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.
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There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the…
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A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it.
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Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience…
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Beneath every history, another history.
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Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.
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I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! But then the gaps would emerge that…
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He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing…
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Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.
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A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on…
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Where words fail, music speaks.
— Hans Christian Andersen
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
— George Eliot
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When words fail, wars begin. When wars finally end, we settle our disputes with words.
— Wilfred Funk
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When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the…
— Unknown Author
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Fail, it's not in my dictionary. I've got a good dictionary up there and the words 'fail' and 'failure' have been ruled…
— Percy Cerutty
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When words fail, the guitar speaks.
— George Szell
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I will never be able to say what is in my heart because words fail us, because it is in our nature…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The…
— Hilary Mantel
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Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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So now what? What happens when words fail us?
— Nick Hornby
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I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally…
— Jacques Lacan
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There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and…
— Irvin D. Yalom
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