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I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language. – Don DeLillo

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In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society thats filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act. – Don DeLillo

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Society
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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power. – Don DeLillo

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power
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Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted. – Don Delillo

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Secrets
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Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival. – Thomas Jefferson

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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. – Baruch Spinoza

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Beauty

I always say beauty is only sin deep. – Hector Hugh Munro

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Beauty

I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or What size do you wear? or Whos your couturier? They ask me about really deep things and I love that. – Shirley MacLaine

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Beauty

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I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it. – Sir Winston Churchill

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A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life. – Isadora James

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In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention. – Thomas Aquinas

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Nixons grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped. – Bob Woodward

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