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“When I am brave enough to say goodbyeI'll use the wings you gave meand away I'll fly”
“If you're brave enough to do something you better damn well be brave enough to accept the consequences.”
“The book is not an object on the table; it is an event in the reader's mind. It's a process, through which an idea in my mind triggers an idea, more-or-less corresponding, in yours. The words on th...”
“Little by little, the look of the land changes by the men we admire.”
“There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.”
“As one retiring chief executive said to his successor "Yesterday was the last day you heard the truth from your subordinates."”
“Maybe I don't know him as well as I thought. Maybe I didn't know myself. Maybe my world is turning upside down and I can't find my footing.”
“I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.”
“There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.”
“My father knew my husband long before I ever did. He actually always says that he loved him first... there really was this wonderful respect and admiration between the two of them before I even cam...”
“Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.”
“Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?”
“Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.”
“It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to cry and lig...”
“You have such faith,” he tells me. “Let it be bigger than your fears.”
“In fact, I don’t understand religion at all and as far as I can see the only thing it does is hasten the slaughter of people who generally seem to be minding their own business.”
“Beautiful building,” Phoebe said. Sam nodded. “Classical Revival,” he said. It was yet another display of his seemingly unending knowledge that both made her proud and made her feel very small. May...”
“In the first of our conversations, you explained how different time was for you—how it’s an abstraction. Some hours glide past like birds, others are slow, plodding behemoths, stubborn and unwillin...”
“Being one’s true and honest self can often be dangerous; and poetry should always be a place where, if only between the pages, that danger and energy and fear and excitement and love can fizz and s...”
“They probably think the sun won't come up unless you're there to allow it.”
