Cesare Pavese Quotes
But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
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Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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There are no ordinary moments.
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I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.
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The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents.
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When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.
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I am a dog.
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People often think of New York as a city, a concrete jungle with soaring skyscrapers and yellow taxis and the bright lights of Times Square. And it is that, in part. But beyond that, it's rolling hills of fruit orchards and fields of grain and ice-cold waters brimming with oysters.
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There's no question that I've done wrong. I take full responsibility for having done wrong. I will regret for the rest of my life the pain and the harm that I've caused to others. But I did not break the law.
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Everything about my life seemed so perfect to people. But I struggle like everyone else.
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But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.
