Franz Kafka Quotes
Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I do two cups of coffee with a little bit of raw sugar and soy creamer, and then I do a bowl of plain oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries. Now, if I could do what I really wanted to do with my life, every morning I would have a salami-and-cheese omelet with hash browns and a buttermilk biscuit - and pancakes. But my heart would explode.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
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I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
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Take responsibility. Step up and step in. Because at the end of the day, folks, we are our behaviors.
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Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.
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And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty Creator.
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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If the cuckoo does not sing, kill it.
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Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
