I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.


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My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
HANNAH COWLEY
Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else...
HANNAH COWLEY
It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
HANNAH COWLEY
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard aga...
HANNAH ARENDT
Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only t...
HANNAH ARENDT
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to real...
HANNAH ARENDT
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
HANNAH ARENDT
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appe...
HANNAH ARENDT
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
HANNAH ARENDT
Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
HANNAH ARENDT
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
HANNAH ARENDT
The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition...
HANNAH ARENDT
Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for ...
HANNAH ARENDT
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
HANNAH ARENDT
No man ever repented on his deathbed of being a Christian.
HANNAH MOORE
Was I in a nativity play? I think I was an angel; I was a very blonde child, so I tended to get type...
HANNAH MURRAY
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
HANNAH MORE
It's so stupid because all I wanted was space and now that I have it, there's this part of me that's...
HANNAH HARRINGTON
Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trem...
HANNAH MORE
The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of ...
HANNAH MORE
The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than...
HANNAH MORE
My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works ...
HANNAH MORE
There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that...
HANNAH MORE
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
HANNAH MORE
O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the health...
HANNAH MORE
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
HANNAH MORE
Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.
HANNAH MORE
No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who...
HANNAH MORE
Even though Graham and I went back to arguing and stealing socks and hiding each other's toothbrushe...
HANNAH MOSKOWITZ
I never do enjoy my breaks, long or short...I look forward to them intensely, but as soon as they be...
SOPHIE HANNAH
Some women nodded, others shook their heads. I would have killed myself before I let one of them mov...
KRISTIN HANNAH
He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And ...
HANNAH HARRINGTON
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more cert...
HANNAH MORE
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar -- you pretend it'...
DARYL HANNAH
What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determ...
HANNAH ARENDT
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
HANNAH ARENDT
How goodness heightens beauty!
HANNAH MORE
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
HANNAH MORE
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardo...
HANNAH ARENDT
If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow...
HANNAH MORE
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam o...
HANNAH MORE
Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
HANNAH MORE
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
HANNAH ARENDT
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
HANNAH ARENDT
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our histo...
HANNAH ARENDT
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses ha...
HANNAH ARENDT
It was characteristic of the rise of the Nazi movement in Germany and of the Communist movements in ...
HANNAH ARENDT
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.
HANNAH ARENDT
Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making...
HANNAH ARENDT
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor a...
HANNAH ARENDT