I hope I am not for the killing, Anselmo was thinking. I think that after the war there will have to be some great penance done for the killing. If we no longer have religion after the war then I think there must be some form of civic penance organiz...
I sometimes wonder whether the act of surrender is not one of the greatest of all - the highest. It is one of the [most] difficult of all... You see it's so immensely complicated. It needs real humility and at the same time, an absolute belief in one...
The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower--Peter
Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else.
[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.
You couldn't teach kindness, she thought. It was something you were born with. People either had it or they didn't.
Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.
Part of me wanted this more than anything else in the world—to have someone to hang out with, be like everyone else for a while. The rest of me screamed to get the hell out of there, not to get sucked in.
A girl who truly knows herself is a girl that everybody else wants to know.
What about everybody else Pye? How many lives can there be in one universe?'[...] 'How many lives Richard?'[...]'One.'.
Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being.
It's simple; be YOU. If you're not being you, you're being someone else. YOU are not here to be someone else.
It's so weird how that can be, how you could have a night that's the worst in your life, but to everybody else it's just an ordinary night.
An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.
We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.
For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.
I never want to be an artistic bully, and put myself above anyone else... or be more prestigious than anyone else. You like what you like, and you have to take that as you want it.
