Dacia Maraini Quotes
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It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.
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Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.
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Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.
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I always walk up the escalator on the Tube, and I live in a house with a lot of stairs, and that's good exercise, but you need more than that.
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I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.
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Danger is ever-present in life, more for some than others.
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I'm not going to grouse and complain when there's nothing I can do about it. Once you've broken up with somebody, arguing with them is not going to bring them back. You may want to stop their Twitter account or call them up late at night, but they made the decision to leave.
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I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible
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Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets hims apart From every other creature On earth.
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The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
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In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.
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The money is nice, but I am not in this game for the money.
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Travelling doesn't stress me, since adequate 10-hour sleep post-travel is sufficient for me.
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Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.
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One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature.
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I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.
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I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.
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We moved 23 times before I was out of high school!
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Defenders see things way different than blockers.
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Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.
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Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far.
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He talked and talked because he didn't know what to say.
