Franz Kafka Quotes
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
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All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest available resources wisely, and clamp down on tax evasion.
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There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.
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Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.
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A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
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Each person's body type is different, and they need to understand that food should be eaten in regular portions.
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I'll be excited when I get my heart broken properly for the first time. I'll be like, 'Thank God I've experienced something. Someone wanted to kiss me.' That's when it's going to be interesting: When you break up, they're taking a piece with them.
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To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
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I listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell in high school. She was sort of an inspiration to me. I think she's a great lyricist, and she makes interesting choices.
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America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.
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I'm an ass-kicking fat kid.
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Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.
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The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.
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In Hell you'd be foolish to count on people displaying high standards of honesty. The same goes for earth.
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Most of my issues that mankind sets out to settle, it never does settle… The dispute fades into the past unsolved, though perhaps it may be renewed as history and fought over again. It disappears because it is replaced by some compromise that, although not wholly acceptable to either side, offers a tolerable substitute for victory…
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The evil of it is that it is a world wrapped up in too much jeweller’s cotton and fine wool, and cannot hear the rushing of the larger worlds, and cannot see them as they circle round the sun. It is a deadened world, and its growth is sometimes unhealthy for want of air.
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It is ridiculous that British troops are here in Crossmaglen. The claim is that they're in Ireland keeping the peace between the two communities. But there is only one community in South Armagh, so what the heck are they doing here?
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In life, loss is inevitable. Everyone knows this, yet in the core of most people it remains deeply denied - 'This should not happen to me.' It is for this reason that loss is the most difficult challenge one has to face as a human being.
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I tend to gravitate toward Proenza Schouler and Alexander Wang. Their designs are accessible and easy.
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Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.
