"I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted……" — Steve Almond
"I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small shocking acts of tenderness."
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26 Quotes by Steve Almond
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All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment…
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Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.
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Art arises from loss. I wish this weren't the case. I wish that every time I met a new woman…
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Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.
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It is certainly true that cooking is therapeutic, creative and all those other faintly creepy self-helpish words. I would love…
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The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this…
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All language is an aspiration to music.
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There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers
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To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of…
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Why are people so fascinated by how to eat Valomilks?’ She said, ‘Well, Dad, they’re round and they’re messy. But…
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Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to…
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We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
— Teresa of Avila
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
— Sai Baba
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.…
— Philip James Bailey
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
— Bernard Baruch
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a…
— Joseph Addison
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The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long…
— Alfred Adler
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
— William Blake
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Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of…
— John Boehner
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