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Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.
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One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape, always be sure to put a human figure somewhere in the scene. Why? Because readers are human beings, mostly interested in human beings. People are humanists. Most of them are humanists, that is.
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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
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After all, you only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.
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See the nigger fly the airplane!
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You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages - they haven't ended yet.
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'That was the strength of the Nazis,' she said. 'They understood God better than anyone. They knew how to make him stay away.'
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This is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.
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Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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The door to happiness opens outward.
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America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
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Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp - everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.
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Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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Peculiar Travel Suggestions are Dancing Lessons From God
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Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.
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If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so.
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And I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.
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Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
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My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on how you define success. The minute I got my first professional cheque from Joel Schumacher, I was successful. Somebody's paying me to act!
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Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
