Tadeusz Borowski Quotes
It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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Nirvana was a band that led you somewhere, as opposed to all the grunge bands that began and ended with themselves.
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I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.
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Prince was not scared. The first time I heard someone sing about AIDS, it was Prince: 'In France, a skinny man died of a big disease with a little name.' He was not afraid of taboos.
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It's kind of fun to hear that other people deal with the same kinds of issues that you do.
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Jimmy Brown made headlines recently for his off-the-wall talk of an NFL comeback at 47. That's a shame because people who never saw Jimmy Brown in his prime will think of him only as a dotty middle-aged man on a colossal ego trip.
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It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity.
