Ezra G. Levin Quotes
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Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.
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It was the only thing I had to do. I worked to get rid of the time, even now I work for something to do. Painting is a wonderful way of getting rid of the days.
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Least doers are the greatest boasters.
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I stroke her lightly, memorizing her body. I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin. I lie motionless, savoring the feeling of her body against mine. I'm afraid to breathe in case I break the spell.
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The one continuing problem in my life has always had the shape of just one question: What amusing thing can I do next?
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One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of this tradition of problematic anti-elitism where the elites are always the liberal class - the intellectuals, the professors, the artists - and not the economic elites. Why are we so mad and aggrieved at newspaper editors but not at corporate executives? I think we need to look more at the latter, at economic elites.
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What we need to do is take that inchoate sense that something isn't right and give it a structural component and the sense that things can be another way.
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We will never recognize the usurper Zionist government and will continue our jihad-like movement until the liberation of Jerusalem.
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One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue.
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There were so many stories around, it was almost inevitable some of them would turn out to be true.
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I'm always "shopping," because I think it's important to know what's out there.
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I have two favorite colors - white and yellow. White makes me feel light and airy. Yellow makes me happy.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
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No country in the world is going to recognize that Ariel and Maaleh Adumim and Beit El are a sovereign part of Israel.
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My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin Pierce Adams imitating Samuel Pepys. I was quite apt to throw in a "bless the mark" at any spot, and to begin a sentence with "Lord" comma.
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All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.
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Stiffening the spine of progressive members of Congress is crucial.
