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Everything you say says either more than you wanted it to say or less than you wanted it to say; and everything you do does either more than you wanted it to do or less than you wanted it to do.
American Pastoral
He was struck by how lives diverge and by how powerless each of us is up against the force of circumstance. And where does God figure in this?
Nemesis
As far as I can see there is no conquering or exorcising the past with words - words born either of imagination or forthrightness.
My Life as a Man
Many farcical, illogical, incomprehensible transactions are subsumed by the mania of lust.
Sabbath's Theater
You take off your clothes and you're in bed with somebody, and that is indeed where whatever you've concealed, your particularity, whatever it may be, however encrypted, is going to be found out, and that's what all the shyness is all about and what everybody fears.
The Human Stain
Anything can happen to anyone, but it usually doesn't. Except when it does.
The Plot Against America
Who are the new people when you do meet them? They're the same old people in masks. There's nothing new about them at all. They're people.
The Dying Animal
There are no reasons. She is obliged to be as she is. We all are. Reasons are in books.
American Pastoral
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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