Edmond Jabes Quotes
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
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The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
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Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint.
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You know yourself, once you've had the excitement of riding thoroughbreds, it's not very interesting riding anything else. But I still love horses; I just don't have one any more.
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Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
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There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process...
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God has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?
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A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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Her breath smelled terrible and I told myself to commit that fact to memory, to remember it the next time I was intimidated by her unwavering grace.
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I have always been terrified of the death of my parents. I never knew if I could count on myself. I never knew if that would send me over the edge.
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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death.
