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being articulate is not a facility of language but a fidelity to vision. And so we are all articulate when finding the courage to say what we see.

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight into words?

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Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes think, maybe that's our function. Maybe every few...

The Angels don't like to be called losers, but they have learned to live with it. Yeah, I guess I am, said one. But you're looking at one loser who's going to make a hell of a scene on the way out.

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

They resisted that essential inductive leap from the immediate reform to the social ideal, and, just as disappointingly, they failed to perceive their common cause with other minorities, continued to...

We're like the couple on the sitcom that has good sparks but never get together for the sake of ratings.

There is mystery in everything," Herman whispered, almost to himself. "And so there is poetry in everything. Even something as monstrous as a whale. But how to unlock its poetry.

The world cracks open for those willing to take a risk.

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

But absence of proof is not proof of absence.

All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.

I realized that you don't try on a pair of pants, fart in them, and then put them back on the shelf, and the same rough politeness applied here, too. Plain and simple, I bled on it, I bought it.

Men can be teenagers until well into their twenties. That is well known

Everything is possible in love. In the heart of each of us there can be many rooms, and sometimes there are.

But we were just picnicking friends

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You know you can't expect to observe the animals without changing anything. It's a scientific impossibility. Of course it is, Malcolm said. That's the greatest single scientific discovery of the...

But the absence of evidence is not proof of absence.

As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward.

Naguib Mahfouz's Palace Walk, set in Cairo, a

Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.

This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?Yes, she said.That's influenza, said Miro. Watch for nausea...

It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could...

Too weird to live, too rare to die!

How many raptors are there? she said. I couldn't tell for sure, when I saw them. I thought nine. I think there's more, Malcolm said. I think eleven or twelve in all. Twelve? she said, glancing up at...

Because raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place.

But as a professor who was popular with his students-and who advocated general education-Thorne found himself swimming against the tide. The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized...

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.''Will you be all right?''I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.