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"That's a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you would forget to pee and eat and get thirsty, but it's not really true. It's like you and your body are two separate things, like your body is betraying you, chugging on, idiotic and animal, craving water and sandwiches and bathroom breaks while your world falls apart."
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"A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking."
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"He who knows to be afraid has a higher chance of living!"
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"Death is easy, you just take the gun or the knife and you just start to suicede by your own or you tell to somebody who is relative to you or somebody who is a friend it doesn't matter and you give him the gun or you say to him what to do and he kills you. This is easy, we aren't born to give up, we aren't born to die let's make ways, let's make our choices, even if you are down in the misearble place and you have lost hope and everything. You mustn't give up continue, stand up say that you won't give up, make few breaths and exhalations, then go to this road and continue. That's your mission!"
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"Don't look back!" "Why not?" "Because I just did! Run faster!"
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"You can survive and strive in life."
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"When in doubt, choose to live."
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"Survive, survive and survive " these are the quintessential laws of Nature. But survive does not always mean being mean."
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"The safest thing to do when in danger is to be too stupid to know you are in danger."
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"Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death."
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"When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect."
People


"John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student."
Fun


"The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves."
Philosophy


"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."
Age


"We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity."
Humanity


"Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions."
Help


"Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading."
Reading


"The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives."
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"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."
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"We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background."
Ability
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