People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.
Dennis Potter
Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them, and not just say, 'Oh, they're all the same.' They are all the same in certain ways, alas a political animal is such an animal. But lurking somewhere behind their rhetoric and their spittle are important choices that we should make.
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The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in
trouble words
You cannot make a pair of croak-voiced Daleks appear benevolent even if you dress one of them in an Armani suit and call the other Marmaduke
call dress
I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself
understand dread
Blake wasn't really merely my student. He was a comrade and friend.
friend student
There is a culture of anti-Mormonism on this campus.
culture
Blake was an activist and artist whose lifestyle truly reflected his values,.. He was the lead singer of Parallax, whose (song) lyrics involve a deep reflection on the alienation produced by our consumerist society. Of all the students I have had over my six years at UVSC, Blake was the most authentic.
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You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.
writing
As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
people
Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.
people religion
The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.
imagination truth
Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.
art
There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.
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I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
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