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He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited. Anthony Powell

Love Passion First Faithful Sight Seems Unrequited Remained He Fell Himself Always Self-Love Often Which

People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. Anthony Powell

People Every Think Circumstance Memoirs Exactly Case Invented Never True Since Because Reverse Happened Cannot Include Novel Wholly Biography

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Man Become Possessing One Thing Could How His Question Die Any Being The One Thing Acquiring Fullness Thing Last

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love Joy Will Approach Above Attaining Never Know Loves Whoever

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering? Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Suffering Worth Convictions Bring

I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire. Antonio Lobo Antunes

Family Me Patriotism World Strong Country Become Living Monument Admire Writers Idea Over Suppose Come Like Sort Chekhov Beethoven Very Artists Roots Painters Portugal

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse. Anzia Yezierska

Man Poverty White Horse Red Like Learned Learned Man Ribbon Ornament

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope. Ariel Dorfman

Hope Live Imagination Without Lots Things

I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, 'I will not be silenced.' Ariel Dorfman

Life Saying Home Silence You Blessing Will Think Has-Been Silenced Voice Thrown Come Been Exile Die Curse Cannot Turn Really Your Dedicated Whole Need

Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an accident that leaves them at the mercy of that darkness is part of the DNA of Chile, an integral part of the country's history. Ariel Dorfman

History Darkness Men Mercy Country Accident Down Minerals Mining Part Leaves Go Integral Integral Part Mountain Chile Story Them Chip Then Created Who Suffer Away

We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile. Ariel Dorfman

Age Live Exile Refugee

Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness. Ariel Dorfman

Life Game Memory Way Marriages Identity Track Returns Does Always Deaths Same Quite May Tax Unfold Confound Tax Returns Body Such Things Keep Play Things Cards Desire

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages. Ariel Dorfman

Fate Responsibility Power Secretary Through Without Ages

You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever. Ariel Dorfman

You Anger Live Forever Survive

Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally. Ariel Dorfman

Country Physically Mentally Writers Emotionally Most Leave Left Who

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds. Ariel Dorfman

Alone Best Writing Community Think Worlds Solitary Possible Both Most Exists Very Person Getting Being Form Being Alone Communal

But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers. Armistead Maupin

Today Communication Phones World Opportunity Internet Cell Phones Strangers Possibility Fraud More Instant Because Cell Even Aware

The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live. Armistead Maupin

Friendship Suffering Fans Live AIDS Teenager Strikes City Longer Abuse New Involves Does His Up Itself York New York New York City Gabriel Storyteller Much Who Radio Film

I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel. Armistead Maupin

Myself Better Consider Adjusted Than Gabriel Much

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers. Armistead Maupin

Faith Nature Lost Human Nature Strangers Human Decided Less Compassionate

Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9. Armistead Maupin

Age Complete Fact Well Hitchcock Maybe Fanatic

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