Etty Hillesum Quotes
Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.
Quotes to Explore
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Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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I'm surprised how hot it gets in the Moab Desert. I knew it got hot, but I didn't think it got, like, Mercury-hot.
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I've had a love affair with the desert ever since I can remember. No matter what I wrote - contemporary romance, spy thriller, high fantasy - it was going to have a desert in it.
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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
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The odd thing about 'Cripple of Inishmaan' is it's never actually been performed on the island.
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A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
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In the future, I expect to see bitcoin mining in places where electricity is free or cheap. You could put solar array in the Arizona desert attached to bitcoin miners, and instead of trying to ship that electricity all over world, you could ship Bitcoin all over the world.
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I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.
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A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
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The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.
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Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a distant land to live among a people whose language he could neither speak nor understand! Not bad, that!
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My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.
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The self-driving car revolution was kicked off by The 'DARPA' Grand Challenge to make an autonomous car traverse 132 mi. of a desert.
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The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.
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Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute.
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I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.
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How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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It's a beautiful thing when you come to fight week and you know that you haven't cut any corners.
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Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.
