Franz Kafka Quotes
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
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The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.
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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
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Never in a million years would I imagine Calvin Klein flying me out to my first men's fashion show.
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My father was military, so I traveled a lot, so I had 13 to 15 first days in new schools. Bullies transcend culture, unfortunately, and I had to deal with them wherever I went. I knew how to defend myself. But I didn't know how to fight.
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Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.
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Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing.
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I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal establishment, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was the biggest opponent to him running.
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I've got a great eye for color. I'm like a chick.
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I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.
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People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.
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I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.
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I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism' that deprived the individual of his or her natural rights.
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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I read myths and fairy tales and books about them a great deal now, but I very seldom read novels. I find modern novels bore me. I can read Tolstoy and the Russians, but mostly I read comparative mythology and comparative religion. I need matter to carry with me.
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I fall in love too terribly hardFor love to ever last.
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What expressions we used – in part taken over and in part newly invented! - above all, the famous 'wholly other' breaking in upon us ‘perpendicularly from above,’ the not less famous 'infinite qualitative distinction' between God and man, the vacuum, the mathematical point, and the tangent in which alone they must meet.
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Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should... come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value - democracy.
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There is no salvation till they have seen their basic prejudice.
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It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.
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I enjoy the celebration of my birthday as much as anyone else does, but I always remember to start my day thanking my mom because she did most of the work the day I came into the world, not to mention all she has done throughout my life that has contributed so much to the woman I am today.
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With all singers, insecurity is your best security. That's why we're such loud people and why we walk all funny. You think, 'Are people interested?' But I think our band has something and they know we don't just put albums out. We do think about it.
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Spotting a rare bird is never worth the bite of a cur. Once bitten by a German shepherd, I knew that I preferred cats, even if they are bird-killers. Life is long enough for more than one chance at a rare bird.
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Childhood is a promise that is never kept.
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Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
