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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Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.
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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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I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film.
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I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver the promises of its dream to all its citizens equally.
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Whether you're shuffling a deck of cards or holding your breath, magic is pretty simple: It comes down to training, practice, and experimentation, followed up by ridiculous pursuit and relentless perseverance.
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People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.
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By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death.
