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I am not easily frightened. Not because I am brave but because I know that I am dealing with human beings, and that I must try as hard as I can to understand everything that anyone ever does. And that was the real import of this morning:
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“I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyretechnics associated with us”
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“It was at Long Huruk that we encountered the vortex of the dream time of which we had so far only touched the periphery, for this was the semi-nomadic community of mystics and dream wanderers. As we tottered up the bank towards the crumbling longhouse, Nanyet came purposefully down and embraced us both – an unheard-of greeting between Indonesian strangers. He”
― Ring of Fire: An Indonesia Odyssey
― Ring of Fire: An Indonesia Odyssey
“Many a time, in my political indifference, I was secretly amused to see him swinging between anti-semitism and his passion for nut cake.”
― The Young Hitler I Knew: The Memoirs of Hitler's Childhood Friend
― The Young Hitler I Knew: The Memoirs of Hitler's Childhood Friend
“The ideal architect should be a man of letters, a skillful draftsman, a mathematician, familiar with historical studies, a diligent student of philosophy, acquainted with music, not ignorant of medicine, learned in the responses of jurisconsults, familiar with astronomy and astronomical calculations.”
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“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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