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An unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.

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Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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I believe that we need to slow down.
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After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.
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I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.
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He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back?
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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Book Complete Different Reader Sense Something Way
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable.
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For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class – contemporary literature is what’s most useful.
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And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
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Will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time.
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One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time.
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy.
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