I. L. Peretz Quotes
Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
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I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.
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Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
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Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.
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If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.
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I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.
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Cleaning, like seduction, should be done from the top down - starting with the ceiling, which is ridiculous. Gravity takes care of that.
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In terms of immigration, we're seeing a lot of Democrats and Republicans use the really elastic term, 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform,' and they don't totally understand what that means. For us in El Paso, it's part of a larger discussion about the nature of the border.
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I get really weird when I'm not working. I have to keep working.
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I don't think the Playboy brand has changed much at all - it's always been sophisticated and aspirational.
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Don't use a pick-up line.
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I feel a lot of life in me and a lot of creative energy, and I think it's better suited somewhere it can run free.
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Any email that contains the words 'important' or 'urgent' never are, and annoy me to the point of not replying out of principle.
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After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right information, it feels like gold.
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What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.
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If Nature built by rule and square, Than man what wiser would she be? What wins us is her careless care, And sweet unpunctuality.
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I didn't think so much of him at first. But now I get it: he's everything that I'm not.
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Let's stop 'tolerating' or 'accepting' difference, as if we're so much better for not being different in the first place. Instead, let's celebrate difference, because in this world it takes a lot of guts to be different.
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Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.
