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“We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?”
Source : Poul Anderson (2003). “Going For Infinity: A Literary Journey”, p.655, Macmillan
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“As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.”
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“All moments of joy include an element of happiness. But not all moments of happiness include joy. Happiness often comes from drive reduction-avoidance of pain or the pursuit of pleasure for pleasure's sake. The essence of joy, on the other hand, is spirit.”
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“I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.”
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“History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not.”
Source : Jeanne C. Stein (2013). “Blood Bond”, Penguin
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“Israel uses weapons to safeguard civilians. Hamas uses civilians to safeguard weapons.”
Source : Twitter post from Jul 11, 2014
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“It was accountability that Nixon feared.”
Source : "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.
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“I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that there are times when one can't write, one shouldn't write, times for thought, for deepening, or just reading, or simply living.”