Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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I was doing these music videos online for a couple years, and they'd be doing well to varying degrees. And I released an album, and with the album, I released three new music videos, and one of them was featured on Jezebel.
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I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.
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During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
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The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.
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In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.
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You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.
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Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward.
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I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.
