It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution … - Shirley Hazzard

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We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.

Shirley Hazzard

It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.

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It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.

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Since the moment of the United Nations' inception, untold energies have been expended by governments not only toward the exclusion of persons of principle and distinction from the organization's leading positions, but toward the installation of men whose character and affiliations would as far as possible preclude any serious challenge to governmental sovereignty.

Character, Exclusion, Governments, Inception, Men, Organization

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.

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At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing.

Expectations, Expects, Firsts, Realize, Same, Too Late

Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a certain style, or some commitment to life - while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?

Boring, Commitment, Forgiving, Life, Number, Numbers

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Amartya Sen

If the government is vulnerable to public opinion, then famines are a dreadfully bad thing to have. You cant win many elections after a famine, and you dont like being criticized by newspapers, opposition parties in parliament, and so on. Democracy gives the government an immediate political incentive to act.

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Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

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Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.

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