Susanna Kaysen Quotes
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I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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If you want to make change, 'Show me how' can be a stronger, more effective approach than 'Just say no.' That's what I think.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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We are a motivated team, and there is nothing that can stop us from winning the title. Even if I had lost, my teammates would have made up for it.
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When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.
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I love candy!
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But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.
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Here's the thing: I fell impossibly in love with the Internet from the minute I saw it in action in the early 1990s. From that moment on, I have studied it, analyzed it, reported on it, and, mostly, have not been without it as a part of my daily life since.
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It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of human life is to grasp as much as we can out of the infinitude.
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Man’s craving for the supernatural is as natural as our discounting of the present moment... The natural becomes trite and commonplace to us and we take refuge in an imaginary world above and beyond it.
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The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.
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I know there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great force, which is greater than any government I stand in awe and I kneel in respect and it is to this great judgment that I dedicate this next song, 'Hallelujah'.
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Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.
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The truth of the matter is I stayed in L.A. raising my children, and when they went to college, I packed my bags along with them and came to New York and looked for parts in the theatre, because that's always what I preferred doing.
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Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity.
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I think it is important for working moms to recognize that family is the most important.
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As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.
