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Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
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What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else. Literature is not only a mirror; it is also a map, a geography of the mind. Our literature is one such map, if we can learn to read it as our literature, as the product of who and where we have been. We need such a map desperately, we need to know about here, because here is where we live. For the members of a country or a culture, shared knowledge of their place, their here, is not a luxury but a necessity. Without that knowledge we will not survive.
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Life is not just one thing; life is a lot of things, and I think Ive been lucky to do that.
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Mainly, life experiences with my family or travelling as a young kid, I feel like I had a different lifestyle than a lot of people leaving on tour when I was fourteen and stuff, so I pull from that.
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Twitter is about creating whatever persona you want to create and either sticking with it or changing it or evolving it or contradicting it, and I've done all that stuff.
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love all the people you can. The sufferings from love are not to be compared to the sorrows of loneliness.
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I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed.
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Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.
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Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.
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I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.
