The 'Reader's Digest' used to run a feature called 'It Pays to Increase Your Word Power.' The new wisdom - post- Trump and Brexit - is that it doesn't.
There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.
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Charlotte Eriksson
Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
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Gilles Deleuze
There has to be new words to explain new worlds.
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Toba Beta
God's grace is not defined as God being forgiving to us even though we sin. Grace is when God is a source of wholeness, which makes up for my failings. My failings hurt me and others and even the planet, and God's grace to me...
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Nadia BolzWeber
The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
More Quotes By Howard Jacobson
I suspect you're thinking of Pascal, ' Finkler said, finally.' Only he said the opposite. He said you might as well wager on God because that way, even if He doesn't exist, you've nothing to lose. Whereas if you wager against God and He does...
A waitress, bringing Finkler more hot water, interrupted Treslove's answer. Finkler always asked for more hot water no matter how much hot water had already been brought. It was his way of asserting power, Treslove thought. No doubt Nietzsche, too, ordered more hot water than...
You can't have a church town without belief and you can't have belief without intolerance.
If that made him heavy company sometimes, so be it. Who decreed that life was to be one long rowdy masquerade (punctuated with those little pets of melancholy indulged by a crowd who made a religion of their feelings)?
How do you go on knowing that you will never again - not ever, ever - see the person you have loved? How do you survive a single hour, a single minute, a single second of that knowledge? How do you hold yourself together?
