Hannah Arendt Quotes
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.
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Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.
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I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.
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What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.
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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.
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The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.
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Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've been, I get nothing but love.
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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You want your partner to objectify you.
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At that moment in time when we feel like the other, we were not the person embraced, not one of the cool kids, not in the club - when you're that person, it makes you feel smaller, and when they persecute you as a result, that's a difficult position to be in.
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I miss Broadway, what little there is on Broadway now.
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I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.
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Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
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My first book was a historical novel. I started writing in 1974. In those days, historical novels meant ladies with swelling bosoms on the cover. Basically, it meant historical romance. It was not respectable as a genre.
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My affection for Taiwan... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese.
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We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.
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If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence!
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There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil.
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Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.
