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4011625 DEELEY: Myself I was a student then, juggling with my future, wondering should I bejasus saddle myself with a slip of a girl not long out of her swaddling clothes whose only claim to virtue was silence but who lacked any sense of fixedness, any sense of decisiveness, but was compliant only to the shifting winds, with which she went, but not the winds, and certainly not my winds, such as they are, but I suppose winds that only she understood.. Harold Pinter
32f2399 She answers no more, the one who used to answer always. Albert Cohen
d4dd283 As a youth, he would lie awake listening to the sounds of the night--his sisters' breathing, the dog at the back door--and worry about "how or when I'm going to die." John J. Winters
90301b0 There are times when I can't help thinking about the past. I know the present is the place to be. It's always been the place to be. I know I've been recommended by very wise people to stay in the present as much as possible, but the past sometimes presents itself. The past doesn't come as a whole. It always comes in parts. Sam Shepard
f6768d9 The experience is always different than the plans. The experience was exhausting. I am still exhausted from it. Sam Shepard
21f6f90 It occurred to me that I was suffering from the dizziness of contradictions: the only pleasure that remains once you've decided you know better than the world. Accepting contradictions means not believing any more in the primacy of "true feeling." Everything is true and simultaneously. It's why I hate Sam Shepard and all your True West stuff - it's like analysis, as if the riddle could be solved by digging up the buried child." Chris Kraus
3ba84d3 Now? Why now? Why am I missing her now, Frankie? Why not then? When she was there? Why am I afraid that I'm gonna' lose her when she's already gone. And this fear--this fear swarms through me--floods my whole body 'til there's nothing left. Nothing left of me. And then it turns--it turns to a fear for my whole life. Like my whole life is lost from losing her. Gone. That I'll die like this. Lost. Just lost. Sam Shepard
82e5322 I believe in my mask/The man I made up is me. John J. Winters
a039daf and who writes, he says, because he finds it easier than talking. John J. Winters
193cb24 o Sujo: o que aceita as mas palavras e pensamentos da gente, e que completa tudo em obra; João Guimarães Rosa
b4aff0c She does not talk anymore, the one who used to talk so pleasantly. Albert Cohen
f940987 With her alone I could be far away from everyone. Albert Cohen
e16384b Only with her I was not alone, now I am alone with everyone. Albert Cohen
51ed862 Brothers, my human brothers, force me to believe in eternal life. Albert Cohen
ef85712 The mass of a body is a measure of its energy content. Albert Einstein
dcf5f51 Wholeness [Ganzheit], Gestalt, is the primary attribute of life. Gestalt psychology
bc55520 I have come to believe that the motion of the Earth cannot be detected by any optical experiment. Albert Einstein
1dbdacd Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. Albert Einstein
143d9da I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton. Albert Einstein
f17f34e Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. Albert Einstein
8fb5b0b The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed. Albert Einstein
0b99b54 I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. Albert Einstein
27bca06 Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Albert Einstein
620e2ba Force always attracts men of low morality. Albert Einstein
16aee0e All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking. Albert Einstein
e480a40 One may say "the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility." Albert Einstein
594397f Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem--in my opinion--to characterize our age. Albert Einstein
8670257 Why is it nobody understands me and everybody likes me? Albert Einstein
6cca68f That is simple, my friend. It is because Politics is more difficult than physics. Albert Einstein
642f8df It is easier to denature plutonium than it is to denature the evil spirit of man. Albert Einstein
316e650 A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels. Albert Einstein
b5b467f Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. Albert Einstein
679301b Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work. Albert Einstein
522e6a7 The state is made for man, not man for the state. And in this respect science resembles the state. Albert Einstein
74b39fe I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts. Albert Einstein
8e0e625 That is simple my friend: because politics is more difficult than physics. Albert Einstein
f31cf82 I got secretly furious, spent ten minutes just winding myself up--because at this point of our marriage, I was so used to being angry with her, it felt almost enjoyable, like gnawing on a cuticle: You know you should stop, that it doesn't really feel as good as you think, but you can't quit grinding away. Gillian Flynn
c0e9538 Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value. Albert Einstein
1f5e405 I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. Albert Einstein
935f895 Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else--unless it is an enemy. Albert Einstein
2e1c54e Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. Albert Einstein
0242427 God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. Albert Einstein
486571a you always do the little fib if you think it will avoid a real argument. You've always gone the easy way. Tell Mom you went to baseball practice when you really quit the team; tell Mom you went to church when you were at a movie. It's some weird compulsion. Gillian Flynn
f2c7bdb As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. Albert Einstein