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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I was inspired by all the images coming out of New Orleans.
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I'm usually in control of the room, but if I sense some kind of hostility, I address it. Occasionally, there are pockets of homophobia, and it's not just the South - it's all over the country.
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No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.
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Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.
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Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
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Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
