Walter Abish Quotes
Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous.
Walter Abish
Quotes to Explore
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I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.
Banksy
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The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.
Imre Kertesz
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
Oprah Winfrey
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I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
Gabrielle Zevin
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'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'
Floyd Skloot
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
Wayne Dyer
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Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.
Charles Stanley
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They spell it 'Vinci' and pronounce it 'Vinchy'. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
Mark Twain
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
Danica McKellar
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I always wonder: the images that hit your brain when you're young are so significant, because there's not that much information in your brain. As you get older, things just bounce off. I can remember these minute details of stupid TV shows from the '70s, and I can't remember a book I read yesterday.
Rob Zombie
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When I left the Lampoon, I went west to try that out, and discovered that I hated it.They were awful people turning out awful product .
P. J. O'Rourke
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Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous.
Walter Abish
