Franz Kafka Quotes
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
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When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
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A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
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It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.
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When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.
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I do not have a family, per se. When I was younger, I grew up in foster care with my brother and sister. It was really a struggle, and knowing that there were people out there with tight-knit families really made my childhood an unfortunate one.
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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
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She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.
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Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'
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Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.
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Anarchy would be a world that nobody felt responsible for, that nobody felt any sort of love for. When there's real intelligence happening, when there's real love happening, there's a sense of responsibility: Hey, we've got to take care of this place and each other.
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Mr. Clinton better watch out if he comes down here. He'd better have a bodyguard.
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I have always loved aeroplanes and spacecraft and the design element.
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98% of the people in the world are harmless and wish you well, but it only takes one person who doesn't. That's what you're constantly on guard against.
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Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.
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I am 100% proud Puerto Rican but have lived two-thirds of my life in the United States. So, there will be some things I write in English, but my main way of conversing with my audience is in Spanish because, at the end of the day, I'm a Latino.
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You can't move mountains by whispering at them.
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Your letter firmed me up a lot. It certainly is a comfort to know that my work is respected by someone whom I respect and am as fond as you. It confirms my beliefe that life is notall nonsense and cruelty-the inversion of Victorian complacency-but has hard spots of sense and love bobbing about in it here and there.
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When you stop being nervous is when you should retire. I'm always a little nervous for anything I do because when complacency sets in, that's when I feel it's time to move on to something else.
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Family doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have a mother, a father, a little brother, and an older sister.
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There's no such thing as a perfect person, so it makes no sense to write a perfect person. I don't know any author who'd try. And we write characters, not representations of groups.
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Clique Maintenance: The need of one generation to see the generation following it as deficient so as to bolster its own collective ego: Kids today do nothing. They’re so apathetic. We used to go out and protest. All they do is shop and complain.
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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
