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Quote by George Steiner
We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that h

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his days work at Auschwitz in the morning. – George Steiner

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Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow. – George Steiner

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The plans that I made when horizontal are working out now that I’m vertical. – Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com (2009 tweet, @wildthyme)

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Id always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race. – Barbara Kruger

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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life. – Victor Hugo

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Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital. – Shimon Peres

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A glorious crown the year puts on… – Phebe A. Holder, “A Song of October,” in The Queries Magazine, October 1890

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