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"Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst."
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"We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails."
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"If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school."
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"Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy."
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"If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means."
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"Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself."
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"I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it."
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"If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too."
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"I have come East to find what the public likes."
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"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."
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"So, I think it has to do with the product and what you take to the public. If they like it, they're going to come see you, and if they don't, and if you're kind of getting out of the trendy line of things, then they won't come see you."
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"In fact the problem Leopardi is facing is speculative and metaphysical, a problem in the history of philosophy from Parmenides to Descartes and Kant: the relationship between the idea of infinity as absolute space and absolute time, and our empirical knowledge of space and time."
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"Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?"
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"It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear."
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"It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books."
Literature
"If one starts to draw comparisons between what is and what is not, it is the poorer qualities of the former that strike you, the impurities, the flaws; in short, you can only really feel safe with nothingness."
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"The difference between the true and the false is only a prejudice of ours."
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"Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased."
Language
"Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be."
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"We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses."
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"Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outside world at a distance, if they area dream into which you sink as if into a drug, or bridges you cast toward the outside, toward the world that interests you so much that you want to multiply and extend its dimensions through books."
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