A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected. - Iris Murdoch

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One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.

Iris Murdoch

A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.

Ideals, Long, Old, Structure, Structures

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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

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Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.

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The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

Essentials, Culture, Fundamentals, Picture, Fundamental

A middling talent makes for a more serene life.

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

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Karl Kraus

One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.

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Plato

We must now examine whether just people also live better and are happier than unjust ones. I think it's clear already that this is so, but we must look into it further, since the argument concerns no ordinary topic, but the way we ought to live.

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Kurt Vonnegut

As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.

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Steve Carell

For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd
nimrod
goober status. I was always just cool enough.

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Lykke Li

I probably thought that about most of the things I did. But you wind up in situations where you have to make decisions very quickly, and you just go for it a lot of the time.

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