Shana Alexander Quotes
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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From now back to the past, we can observe clearly that none of us is free.
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Rates of black poverty have decreased. Black teen-pregnancy rates are at record lows - and the gap between black and white teen-pregnancy rates has shrunk significantly. But such progress rests on a shaky foundation, and fault lines are everywhere.
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I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
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I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.
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You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
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It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity: ultimately, my parents' marker is 'Do you have a wife?' and 'Do you have children?'
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p. 63
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What difference does it make, whether we keep our silence because they force us or because we're afraid they might force us?
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The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.
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He vanished abruptly, like an eel going into mud.
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Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.
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The sea is superb, but the cliffs don't match up to those at Fecamp. Here I'll be certain to do more boats.
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What is a bow and arrow?It is the beginning of the end. It is the winding path that grows to the roaring road of war.It is a plaything and a weapon and a triumph in human engineering.It is the first faint stirring of an atom bomb.It is a symbol of a way of life.
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I didn't always take myself that seriously. Image-wise, I was somewhat of a jokester.
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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Would we if we could, educate and sophisticate pigs, geese, cattle? Would it be wise to establish diplomatic relations with the hen that now functions, satisfied with mere sense of achievement by way of compensation? I think we're property'
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The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.
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The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love.
