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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the...
Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of...
The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of...
Women manage, quite brilliantly, on the whole, and to stunning and unforeseeable effect, to survive and surmount being...
The root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
Source:...
If the concept of God has any validity or use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot...
If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, recreated from the Bible in song by a slave, is...
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they...
When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you...
It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the...
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can...
The future is . . . black.
Source: The Observer, 'Sayings of the Week', 25 Aug...
We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought...
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given, freedom is something people take and people are as free as they...
Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to...
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his...
There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of...
There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one --you have the corpse, and you are,...
The future is like heaven -- everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there.