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I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for the titles and authors that populate the early chapters 'of The Borrower.'

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• If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed – I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Men
  • Fun
  • Girlfriend

• We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Way
  • Find
  • Process

• I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Think
  • Process
  • Information

• The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Focus
  • Mirror
  • Subjectivity

• I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Earth

• The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • People
  • Power
  • American

• I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden you pull your eyes down, and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in - then you know something's wrong.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Eyes
  • Eye
  • Mirror

• Chorus: We must look beneath every stone, lest it conceal some orator ready to sting us. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes

• I'm a big perfectionist! I'm trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Channel

• Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Cake
  • Bourbon
  • Proust

• I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Experience
  • Thing
  • Very

• Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Progress
  • Sacrifice
  • Survival

• We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Pain

• The way you delegate is that first you have to hire people that you really have confidence in. You won't truly let those people feel a sense of autonomy if you don't have confidence in them.

  

  Robert Pozen
  • People
  • Confidence
  • Hire

• I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Long
  • Language
  • Broken

• Some cities are really boring and straight.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Cities
  • Boring
  • Straight

• There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Men
  • Women
  • Die

• Pascal Lee is a true pioneer of Mars exploration.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • True
  • Mars
  • Pioneer

• It will become clear in the following chapters that Jesus was not originally considered to be God in any sense at all, and that he eventually became divine for his followers in some sense before he came to be thought of as equal with God Almighty in an absolute sense. But the point I stress is that this was, in fact, a development.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • God
  • Development
  • Followers

• There are days when I almost forget that I fought in that war. It was such a long time ago. I was young, so young, so fucking young. And all that's left of my youth is in my head. You know, the head, it's like a map. Not a map that gives you directions, but a map with names on it–names of guys who were killed in the war, names of the people you left behind, names of countries and villages and cities. Names. After all these years, that's all that's left. Names. But no directions. And no way to reach them, no way to get back what you lost.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • War
  • Forget
  • Young

• I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for the titles and authors that populate the early chapters 'of The Borrower.'

  

  Rebecca Makkai
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