"Despotism is a long crime."
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"The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel. Over the cage floor the horizons come."
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"Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self."
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"Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair."
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"Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long."
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"You know that this vignette and that vignette belong side by side, you know that a certain turn of phrase you've been saving will probably work best within a given section of the narrative. As in a jazz performance, writing lives or dies by what's produced in that moment. But that moment is attended by long preparation."
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"Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer. I'm a writer who's been strongly influenced by European precedents. I'm a writer who feels very close to literary practice in India - which I go to quite often - and to writers over there."
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"Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair?"
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"I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard."
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"The important thing about adventures, thought Mr. Bunnsy, was that they shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes."
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"Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light."
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"I'd love to do yoga every day. I don't usually have time, but a few sun salutations go a long way."
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"Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be."
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"If we're having a glitzy over-the-top moment, fashion is very glitzy and over-the-top, you know, over-the-top. If we're having a moment where things are, you know, we're in a recession, fashion becomes quiet. So, in terms of popular culture, fashion and especially women's fashion is incredibly interesting, aside from satisfying just a particular need to create and arrange things in a way that one sees as beautiful. And so, in a certain way, it's fulfilling. In another way, it's very fleeting because it doesn't last very long. You know, a beautiful moment in fashion goes away very quickly."
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"The only way for us to have long-term happiness is to live by our highest ideals."
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"I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been niggling them for ages, but in the back of their mind they’ve got a wonderful long-term plan."
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"I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now."
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"I don't want to be a slave to history or facts. As long as I'm getting a good cursory understanding of what it is and I'm not drifting too far away at certain points, then I can play with the idea and take it anywhere I want to."
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"There's no such thing as a short review. It will take a long time to get it started. That's the reality. And it will be probably even longer to complete it."
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"Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing."
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