How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.
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Bit by bit ... she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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'A drug is a substance that, when injected into a rat, produces a scientific paper.'
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How could an Angel break my heart? Why didn't he catch my falling star? I wish I didn't wish so hard. Maybe I wished our love apart.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you speak.
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I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me.
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What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the ...
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind
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She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.
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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
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There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Revolution begins with the self, in the self.
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Like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.
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The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
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(Love) is easily the most empty clich�©, the most useless word, and at the same time the most powerful human emotionbecause hatred is involved in it, too.
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The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
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Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.
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