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Judith Butler Philosopher, Gender Theorist
Fall

"A different kind of pleasure surfaced in the aftermath, the pleasure of seeing the towers fall time and again, the experience of being entranced by the visual spectacle, and then also the very graphic forms of public mourning for exemplary citizens (taking place at the same time as the refusal to mourn the undocumented, the foreign, gay and lesbian lives lost there, for example). I am not sure that the guilt over the pleasure re-installed the good citizen."

Fall Gay Mourning
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Jules Renard Writer
Fall

"How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey."

Fall Flower Delicate Things
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Julian Barnes Author
Fall

"I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind."

Writing Fall Grief
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Fall

"I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short."

Fall Feelings Actors
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Joseph Joubert Essayist, Moralist
Fall

"The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness."

May Fall Dregs
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Joseph Campbell Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
Fall

"And if there was no Fall, what then of the need for Redemption? What god was offended and by whom? Some especially touchy cave bear whose skull had been improperly enshrined?"

Inspirational Fall Skulls
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Johnny Depp Actor, Producer
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"I've played English a number of times, and used an English accent a number of times, so it becomes a little bit of an obstacle course to go, "Oh, that's teetering into Captain Jack-ville," or "This is teetering into Chocolat or Wonka." You've got to really pay attention to the places you've been. But, that's part of it. That's the great challenge. You may get it wrong. There's a very good possibility that you can fall flat on your face, but that's a healthy thing for an actor."

Fall Numbers Challenges
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John Green Author, YouTuber
Fall

"I have spent my life falling. Not the kind that Tiny's talking about. He's talking about love. I'm talking about life. In my kind of falling, there's no landing. There's only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you're falling, it's the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends."

Fall Feelings Talking
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John Green Author, YouTuber
Fall

"I was thinking about this girl you love so much," she said, "And this place I love so much. And how that happens. How you can just fall into it."

Thinking Girl Fall
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John Green Author, YouTuber
Fall

"In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck."

Thinking Years Fall
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John Green Author, YouTuber
Fall

"The punch connected, but (1) Colin forgot to close his fist, so he was slapping not hitting, and (2) instead of slapping TOC, he ended up slapping Hassan flush across the cheek, whereupon Hassan finally succeeded in falling down."

Fall Hitting Fists
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John Green Author, YouTuber
Fall

"It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in."

Real Life Fall
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John Calvin Theologian, Reformer
Fall

"For, since the fall of Adam had brought disgrace upon all his posterity, God restores those, whom He separates as His own, so that their condition may be better than that of all other nations. At the same time it must be remarked, that this grace of renewal is effaced in many who have afterwards profaned it"

May Fall Grace
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John Calvin Theologian, Reformer
Fall

"Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with their infant children, except because it so seemed good to God? A decree horrible, I confess, and yet true."

Children Fall Together
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Joan Didion Author, Essayist
Fall

"As it happened, I didn't grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although the men I have known have had many virtues and have taken me to live in many places I have come to love, they have never been John Wayne, and they have never taken me to the bend in the river where the cottonwoods grow. Deep in that part of my heart where artificial rain forever falls, that is still the line I want to hear."

Fall Growing Up Rain
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Jeff Smith Chef
Fall

"I love this book! Cathy Malkasian's Percy Gloom swirls with echoes of cartoon landscapes from the past and present. You can almost hear Percy Gloom's meek, docile little voice. Her writing is so full of wit and charm that we, like the title character, walk dutifully to the edge and fall in. And like Percy, we are rewarded equally with night terrors and secret treasures."

Book Character Fall
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Jandy Nelson Author
Fall

"This is what I want: I want to grab my brother’s hand and run back through time, losing years like coats falling from our shoulders."

Running Fall Brother
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