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- I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.
- You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
- Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it…
- Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.…
- My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and…
- Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's…
- Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
- If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you…
- Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
- There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.
- The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.
- All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.
- Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with,…
- Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children -…
- My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me…
- No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again...…
- The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled…
- E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five…
- I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or…
- I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you…
- I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where…
- If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be…
- Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually…
- Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have…
- The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry…
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide