Anne Carson  - Quotes

 [Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with its arms up yelling let 

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Weston Locher  - Quotes

 Our family was nearly torn apart on several occasions by arguments started when the refrigerator door was open for what my father deemed as  

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Arthur Miller  - Quotes

 A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. 

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan  - Quotes

 Never say more than is necessary. 

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Annie Dillard  - Quotes

 I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. Then even death, where you're going no matter how you live, cannot you part. 

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Alan Sypert  - Quotes

 It wasn 

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Weston Locher  - Quotes

 [The cats] scamper in front of my legs, causing me to fall and face plant into whatever furniture is closest. They especially like to play this game when I 

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Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay without the hope 

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Weston Locher  - Quotes

 The first way not to shake hands is executed by receiving someone 

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Weston Locher  - Quotes

 After all, this was the place where I 

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Richard Rodriguez  - Quotes

 The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay. 

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Weston Locher  - Quotes

 Ever since the robot was first invented, there have been people who swear up and down that this marks the first step towards the fall of man  

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Ralph Waldo Emerson  - Quotes

 It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. 

Maureen Johnson  - Quotes

 Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this. 

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E.M. Forster  - Quotes

 How do I know what I think until I see what I say? 

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Breyten Breytenbach  - Quotes

 Even ivory towers need central heating. 

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Francis Bacon  - Quotes

 Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. 

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