Ethan Gilsdorf Quotes
A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt.
Ethan Gilsdorf
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
Rachel Weisz
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I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.
Daniel Alarcon
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
Natascha McElhone
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Napoleon Hill
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The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.
Barbara Amiel
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The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
Samuel Johnson
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You don't see your prison because its bars are invisible.
Dan Millman
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I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
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I'm married now, but back when I had girlfriends, you were always wondering if they liked you, and if you liked them enough. You're together, but the smallest thing could make one of you go 'You know what? This isn't working!'
Jeremy Sisto
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A dead tree, cut into planks and read from one end to the other, is a kind of line graph, with dates down one side and height along the other, as if trees, like mathematicians, had found a way of turning time into form.
Alice Oswald
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America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.
George H. W. Bush
