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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.
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You’re so American. You believe everything is possible, everything will come. I know differently.
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I do not know everything; still many things I understand.
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Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.
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I've always strived to find those records that people don't know, but they actually go "Wow, what is this?" - and they go crazy to it. To me, that's more rewarding as a DJ, and that's what I always thought a DJ was supposed to do: it's about educating people. Now there seems to be a commercial edge to stuff and people are reacting to stuff they've heard on the radio all day long: to me, that's not what youth culture should be reacting to.
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I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I think maybe I do.
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Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.
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There’s a level at which words are spirit and paper is skin. That’s the fascination of archives. There’s still a bodily trace.
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People have their faults, but it doesn't prevent you from loving them.
