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1625 Essayist Quotes

And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.

One Major Keep Cross
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
Traveling Desire Cross Boundaries
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

Intimate Gold Explore Describe
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

Most Difficult Part Process
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So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

Truth Certain Moment Judge
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing wit

Weapon Suicide Revenge Victim
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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

Think Claim Part Other
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And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.

Major Question Keep Permission
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I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.

Respect Expect Novel Fiction
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

Man You Random Honor
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We're living with the Arabs; we have to understand them... Through knowing the Arabs, you know yourself better.

Living Through Yourself Better
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In a time of crisis, there is rational tendency to turn to the writer.

Time Tendency Turn Crisis
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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

Moment Life Whole Blankly
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Life Good Moral Cheat
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.

Soul Heart Romance Offered
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But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

Theater Nature Text Images
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Only 4 sets of people can vote for the PDP: (1) those who are intellectually blind; (2) those who are blinded by ethnicity; (3) those who are blinded by corruption and therefore afraid of the unknown, should power change hands; and finally (4) those who are suffering from a combination of the above terminal sicknesses.

People PDP Vote Corruption
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A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts.
Tiger Shout Tigritude Acts
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There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

Audience Dynamic Quality Environment
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No man beholds his mother's womb Yet who denies it's there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.

Man Womb Mother Denies
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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact; can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

Truth Antithesis Antagonism Society
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I am a glutton for tranquility.
Glutton Tranquility
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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.

Colonialism Bred Innate Imperial
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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

Believe Learning Best Process
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Power Domination Control Selective
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

Ultimate Lesson Just Write
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One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.

Writer Thing Methodical You
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I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness.

Sun Mouth Leap Darkness
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Background Become Clear Itself
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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

Being Boy Duty Emotion
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Continuous Fiction Form Newspaper
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Age Life Little Long
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

Fear Life Loss Misfortune
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All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Best Escape Interest Only
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

Fact Good Important Knowing
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Life is a sweeter, stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he is still thee to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

Admire Honor Serve Experience
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The awful penalty of success is the haunting dread of subsequent failure.
Failure Dread Success Awful
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Go where your best prayers take you.

Go Best Prayers You
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What kind of people we become depends crucially on the stories we are nurtured on.

Kind People We Nurtured
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Because Came Could Deliberately
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There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Anxiety Infinite Leisure Moments
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If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Agent Another Break Government
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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Bear Closest Eye Her
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Away Because Companions Different
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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Got House Planet Put
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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Ahead Behind Compared Lies
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It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Atmosphere Below Better Breathe
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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Consumes Fatal Getting Greater
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There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Bring Any Choose Except
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It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
Determines Fate Himself His
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