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I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In…
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[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the…
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If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they…
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The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast…
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There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch.…
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If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to…
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then,…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.
— Philip James Bailey
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The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi.
— Criss Jami
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[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the…
— Tom Wolfe
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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the…
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
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Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains;…
— Honore de Balzac
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But as a philosopher said, one day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, after all the scientific and…
— Sargent Shriver
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Art alone makes life possible – this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art…
— Joseph Beuys
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