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It's how the news becomes so powerful it doesn't need TV or newspapers. It exists in people's perceptions. It's something they invent, strong enough to seem real. It's the news without the media. Don DeLillo
In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that way. Chuck Klosterman
Titanic I thought was the most dreadful piece of work I've ever seen in my entire life. Another film that I think is equally bad was American Beauty. So badly acted and directed. But people like that. Robert Altman
...and as far as talent is concerned, there will be such an excess that our artists will become their own audiences, and audiences made up of ordinary people will no longer exist. Herman Hesse
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might..."
he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jane Austen quote: "I certainly have not the talent which some people possess, of..."
I certainly have not the talent which some people possess, of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. Jane Austen
Ernest Hemingway quote: "I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their..."
I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together Ernest Hemingway
Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree. Alice Hoffman
I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going. Ray Bradbury
Well, some people say I'm pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find? Wole Soyinka
They grope before them like blind people and find each the other as they would a door. Almost like children that dread the night, they press close into each other. And yet they are not afraid. There is nothing that might be against them: no yesterday, no morrow; for time is shattered. And they flower from its ruins. He does not ask: 'Your husband?' She does not ask: 'Your name?' For indeed they have found each other, to be unto themselves a new generation. They will give each other a... Rainer Maria Rilke
David Sedaris quote: "there's a reason regular people don't appear on TV: we're boring."
there's a reason regular people don't appear on TV: we're boring. David Sedaris
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never..."
But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
But when she saw Evie at the entrance of the restaurant, staring fiercely at nothing after the fashion of athletic women, her heart failed her anew. Miss Wilcox had changed perceptibly since her engagement. Her voice was gruffer, her manner more downright, and she was inclined to patronize the more foolish virgin. Margaret was silly enough to be pained at this. Depressed at her isolation, she saw not only houses and furniture, but the vessel of life slipping past her, with people like... E. M. Forster
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference. Ellen Goodman

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