"The amazing thing is that we're right to hold onto hope. The world may be broken but hope is not crazy."
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"..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel."
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"There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil to us, perhaps not in themselves but because their tendency is to eliminate other things we hold good."
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"George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before. 'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. They come to a ranch an' work up a stake, and the first thing you know they're poundin' their tail on some other ranch. They ain't got nothing to look ahead to."
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"Let's say I hope that I appeal to the more carefree times in a person's life rather than to his reasoning adulthood. I'd just like to be an image that reminds someone of joy rather than of the problems of the world."
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"Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more."
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"I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . . . I felt myself to be, for an unknown period of time, an abstract perceiver of the world."
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"The function of artists is "the mythologization of the world.""
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"Egoism , which is the moving force of the world, and altruism , which is its morality , these two contradictory instincts , of which one is so plain and the other so mysterious, cannot serve us unless in the incomprehensible alliance of their irreconcilable antagonism."
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"I never even realized I was Jewish until I was practically grown up. Or rather, I used to feel that everybody in the world was Jewish, which amounts to the same thing."
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"If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate?"
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"There is no nation in the whole world desiring war."
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"My world view has always been that there's just an enormous amount of cultural and religious diversity out there, all of which is really worth taking in."
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"For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted."
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"And that's the insult of it, how always it comes back to a woman being a "good" mother in the world's eyes or a "bad" mother, how everything in a woman's life is funneled through her body between her legs."
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"It is a man's world at the top, at the bottom, and in between. Men are in the catbird seat as far as income, opportunity, status, and power are concerned. This is the way it always has been and, as far as men are concerned, it is the way it always should be."
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"I do an international beauty pageant called Queen of the Universe for UNESCO, and what we do is we build kindergartens around the world."
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"I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall explode and blow up the globe. ... They [the Americans] are great boilermakers."
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"I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well."
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"You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed."
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