You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them. - Ann Patchett - Quotesmemo.com

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Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.

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Ann Patchett

You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.

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Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.

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There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.

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In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.

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I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.

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One must not be shy where language is concerned.

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Kevin Smith

Kevin Smith

You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can't get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it's so crushing.

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Payam Akhavan

Storytelling is very important. It is through context and relations that we understand the importance of human dignity. The concept means nothing as an abstraction. It's important for us to understand why people do the things they do, including the monsters - the suicide bomber and the war criminal. Understanding is not acceptance. Understanding is exploring the human psyche. If we want to put an end to violence, we need to have the sort of conversation I had with the teenage suicide bomber.

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Jeremy Irons

Jeremy Irons

Never played a video game. Actually, I try to keep them out of my house.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder.

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John Oliver Killens

John Oliver Killens

Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.

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