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The artist secretes nostalgia around life.

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A phenomenon that a number of people have noted while in deep depression is the sense of being accompanied by a second self? a wraithlike observer who, not sharing the dementia of his double, is able to watch with dispassionate curiosity as his companion struggles against the oncoming disaster, or decides to embrace it. There is a theatrical quality about all this, and during the next several days, as I went about stolidly preparing for extinction, I couldn't shake off a sense of melodrama?... William Styron
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And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality was misplaced, that we couldn't overcome after all, that all the education and good intentions in the world couldn't help you plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course. Barack Obama
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There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child. Gloria Estefan
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Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up. Jeremy Irons
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But now I've been in the arena for 47 years and I stutter less today than I did in those days. Mel Tillis
By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise. Adolf Hitler
A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain of Anglo misogynist culture-political movements are what have allowed our writing to surface from the secret places in our notebooks into the public sphere. Cherrie Moraga
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And I really believe good journalism is good business. Christiane Amanpour
Max Cleland quote: "John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there."
John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there. Max Cleland
I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen. Laura Hillenbrand
The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out. Barbara Deming
Dashiell Hammett quote: "I have not killed anyone. They will not let me."
I have not killed anyone. They will not let me. Dashiell Hammett
George S. Patton quote: "Battle is an orgy of disorder."
Battle is an orgy of disorder. George S. Patton
Lao Tzu quote: "The sage shuns excess, shuns grandiosity, shuns arrogance."
The sage shuns excess, shuns grandiosity, shuns arrogance. Lao Tzu