It’s a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
~ Henry James
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Author Archives: Gareth Antigua
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Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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Communication leads to community — that is, to understanding, intimacy, and the mutual valuing that was previously lacking.
~ Rollo May
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Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
~ William Faulkner
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If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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A person can meet anxiety to the extent that his values are stronger than the threat.
~ Rollo May
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Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
~ Toni Morrison
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The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
~ John le Carré
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If you don’t have the right things, you improvise, and the wrong things become necessary. Then the necessary things turn out to be the only right things, simply because they’re what you have.
~ Herta Müller
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