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All Quotes Collection
"So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here."
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"True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale."
36
"I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness."
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"Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set."
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"Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste."
36
"I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not."
Man,
37
"I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing."
54
"I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense."
39
"I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off."
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"Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose."
53
"The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie."
44
"Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production."
46
"This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising."
47
"Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse."
48
"After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life."
40
"The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed."
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"Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language."
45
"It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything."
43
"A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state."
44
"For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language."
46
"Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family."
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"If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church."
43
"Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now."
39
"David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph."
44
"What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve."
35
"Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage."
42
"While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships."
42
"What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous."
33
"TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract."
35
"The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life."
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