When you came after me at the tavern, you nearly died." He looked wrecked at the memory. "You nearly died, and then who would I have argued with?"
"You'd have found someone."
"No." He stepped toward her. "I only want to argue with you.


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You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and ...
JUDGE LEARNED HAND
Anyone may so arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible. He is not bound to ...
JUDGE LEARNED HAND
I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon cour...
JUDGE LEARNED HAND
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court c...
JUSTICE LEARNED HAND
Everything looks cute when it's small.
CYNTHIA ROWLEY
In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance ...
CYNTHIA OZICK
Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY
While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I...
CYNTHIA NIXON
The combat exclusion policy was adopted during the Clinton Administration in 1994 and says women can...
CYNTHIA DILL
To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of a...
CYNTHIA OZICK
It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY
Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send th...
CYNTHIA OZICK
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
CYNTHIA HEIMEL
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliant...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliant...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL
We don't really know who killed Martin Luther King. We don't really know who killed Bobby Ke...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY
It was kind of like songwriter's boot camp. You had to produce. You had to produce fast. You had...
CYNTHIA WEIL
There are lots of different strategies that an animal can use to survive. What a worm does is try to...
CYNTHIA KENYON
If it weren't for women, men would still be wearing last week's socks.
CYNTHIA NELMS
One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one want...
CYNTHIA OZICK
The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.
CYNTHIA NELMS
She couldn’t get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn’t get away.
CYNTHIA VOIGT
Wondrous hole! Magical hole! Dazzlingly influential hole! Noble and effulgent hole! From this hole e...
CYNTHIA OZICK
In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
CYNTHIA OZICK
I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This...
CYNTHIA OZICK
After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our f...
CYNTHIA OZICK
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL
The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to ...
CYNTHIA OZICK
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes co...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes co...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL
In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
CYNTHIA OZICK
Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
CYNTHIA NELMS
I know it does make people happy, but to me it is just like having a cup of tea.
CYNTHIA PAYNE
All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure f...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL
Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't...
CYNTHIA NIXON
We have gone through some difficult times like everyone else and perhaps our working together and re...
CYNTHIA WEIL
Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyle...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY
An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if...
CYNTHIA OZICK
To be a Jew is an act of the strenuous mind as it stands before the fakeries and lying seductions of...
CYNTHIA OZICK
By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith Colle...
CYNTHIA VOIGT
After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.
CYNTHIA OZICK
If you look at the field of robotics today, you can say robots have been in the deepest oceans, they...
CYNTHIA BREAZEAL
Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to...
CYNTHIA NIXON
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliant...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL
One of my favourite pieces is 'Antony and Cleopatra' - I'd love to be in that. Or an alt...
CYNTHIA ERIVO
Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee...
CYNTHIA OZICK
Most child actors, once they hit 18, once they hit 21, that's it. Even teenage kids often don...
CYNTHIA NIXON
Unlike me, a lot of child actors are very short, which is why they work. So when they're 15 they...
CYNTHIA NIXON
The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter n...
CYNTHIA WEIL
Carbohydrates, and especially refined ones like sugar, make you produce lots of extra insulin. I'...
CYNTHIA KENYON
What I want to see is more mixed casts. We need it. People need to be brave - in the real world, eve...
CYNTHIA ERIVO
An article can be timely, topical, engaged in the issues and personalities of the moment; it is like...
CYNTHIA OZICK
I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanati...
CYNTHIA OZICK
There are days when I'm completely obsessed with Kate Bush, and there are days when I'm comp...
CYNTHIA ERIVO
Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous break...
CYNTHIA WEIL
I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characte...
CYNTHIA OZICK
Your good friend has just taken a piece of cake out of the garbage and eaten it. You will probably n...
CYNTHIA NIXON
I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading no...
CYNTHIA KENYON