Allan Bloom Quotes
The distinction between the world of commerce and that of 'culture' quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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I like being unconventional.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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There's something bizarrely funny about a guy who doesn't realise he's, in essence, a dog chasing his own tail.
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History is a game played backwards only.
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Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us.
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It's human nature to take the easy route and leap at storage methods that promise quick and convenient ways to remove visible clutter. Putting things away creates the illusion that the clutter problem has been solved. But sooner or later, all the storage units are full, and the room once again overflows with things.
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There is no danger to the man that knowsWhat life and death is; there's not any lawExceeds his knowledge; neither is it lawfulThat he should stoop to any other law.He goes before them, and commands them all,That to himself is a law rational.
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The distinction between the world of commerce and that of 'culture' quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter.
