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You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place...like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be...

In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. This affirmation lies in the way...

before speaking, notice what motivates your words.

A novel is not an allegory, I said as the period was about to come to an end. It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and...

The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities,...

Ana thought eyebrow rings were stupid. She liked earrings, and she could understand nose rings, belly-button rings and even pierced tongues, but metal sticking out of random facial places like...

The more we die, the stronger we will become

The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So...

Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.

Withdrawal to our dreams may be dangerous

I eat my heart out alone.

I'm a perfectly equipped failure.

You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.

those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account.

I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.

The best part of my new job was finally running my own show and no longer having to answer to people like {Chris Kimsington}.

...Once again confirms that there is no such thing as genetically pure classification into different races.

They encourage us to show the feelings of our love for the Imam in the utmost exaggeration forms, while they are forbidden to show any public expression of our personal feelings, and I mean love in...

The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own...

We in ancient countries have our past-we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future.

It was as if this baseball coach had reached inside me, found a rusty switch marked: 'turn on before attempting use' - and flipped it.

A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates...

And because you can stand on the shoulders of giants, you can accomplish something quickly.

She resented the fact that her veil, which to her was a symbol of scared relationship to god, had now become an instrument of power, turning the women who wore them into political signs and symbols.

It's frightening to be free, to have to take responsibility for your decisions.

With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us. - Tilopa

The man who makes no mistakes never makes anything

Mr. Responsible Media was looking rebellious, but this was my country. I was the Cinnamon Roll Queen and most of those assembled were my devoted subjects.

Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition.

The number of hours women devote to housework has not changed since 1930, despite all the advances. All the vacuum cleaners, washer-dryers, trash compactors, garbage disposals, wash-and-wear fabrics...

Drawing is simply another way of seeing, which we don't really do as adults, says cartoonist Chris Ware. We're all going around in a cloud of remembrance and anxiety, he says, and the act of drawing...

But the question made no sense to the bulk of the troops, who regarded instinctive obedience to orders and ready acceptance of subordination within a military hierarchy as infringements on the very...