Nissim Ezekiel Quotes
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Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.
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Death stung himself to death when he stung Christ.
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The world is too violent right now.
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Becoming a mother has helped me to realize who I am aside from my career.
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...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.
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If you think you're something long enough, eventually, you just turn into it.
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If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.
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I've had my own personal stalker. I would get nude drawings of my body with a knife and a message saying 'I'm watching you' and 'I'm going to get you.'
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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To the youngsters of today, I say believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity. Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything.
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To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.
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You make a great, very great mistake, if you think that psychology, being the science of the mind's laws, is something from which you can deduce definite programmes and schemes and methods of instruction for immediate schoolroom use.
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... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Being strong does not mean that you never fall down, but that whenever you fall, you get up again.
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(While smiling, and jokingly) You haven't come to see me for three weeks. I wondered whether you had become disgusted with us war criminals - particularly me, the so-called archcriminal of them all.
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Do you realize the FBI filing system from the '50s was much more secure? How could you have stolen that data? It was on notecards. Now someone with a thumb drive, or remotely, can take the equivalent of millions of those notecards.
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Nothing keeps people together like the exalted conviction that they alone are to be spared that eternal anguish of hell fire to which everyone else will be condemned.
