"Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody- and that's what's made them radiantly attractive."

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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

“The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.”

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“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”

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"The word ... becomes "one's own" only when the speaker populates it with his own intention, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Pri…"

— Mikhail Bakhtin

Philosophy1895–1975

#writing

"Cris didn't play fair. He had watched half an hour — then come out and thrown once. One perfect toss, one dead ringer."

— Philip K. Dick

Literature1928–1982

#justice

"ccording to the Constitution the Chief Justice presides, that is to say, he's in charge. The Senators are meant to be jurors. What Chief Justice Roberts allowed to happen, was that the jurors decided …"

— Timothy D. Snyder

Literature1969

#justice