• The tension between 'yes' and 'no,' between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

  Anatole Broyard
  American writer, literary critic, and editor
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. interminable
2. between
3. cannot
4. debate
5. human

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The tension between 'yes' and 'no,' between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self. by : Anatole Broyard

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