Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection.
Quotes to Explore
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.
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Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
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We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.
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At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.
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It's an advantage having a limited output. When George Gershwin is asked to play his repertoire, he plays all evening. I just play 'Lady Play Your Mandolin' and I'm through.
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'This is Alvin Smith,' said Cooper. 'He’s a man of inestimable abilities, but only because nobody has cared enough to estimate them.'
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Things don't get any easier by putting them off.
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You emphasize morality. But the ultimate basis of morality is survival. What promotes survival is good; what induces mortifaction is bad.
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Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.
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'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
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Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.
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The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.
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Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection.
