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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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You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
— Dave Barry
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If we live in such a way that the considerations of eternity press upon us, we will make better decisions. Perhaps this…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!
— Edwin Louis Cole
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People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.
— Megan Chance
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No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to…
— Knut Hamsun
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Even a fool gets to be young once.
— Frank Lucas
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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
— Germaine Greer
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I am only young once, who cares if I'm a goofball!
— Ashton Kutcher
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We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't…
— Muriel Barbery
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But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.
— Hilary Mantel
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For me, acting is torturous, and it's torturous because you know it's a beautiful thing. I was young once, and I said,…
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
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