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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
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The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can't just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches.
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The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.
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The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
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The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.
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The crew knew because they had heard from other people, and when I showed up on the set the next day, they were all looking at me kind of weird. I told them that Bill always taught me that whenever something bad like that happens, the best thing to do is work.
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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
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The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
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The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
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The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert.
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The debt ceiling at some point has to be raised. I don't think there's anybody that questions the fact that if we ended up getting in a situation where the U.S. government was sending out IOUs like the state of California did at one point, that ends up creating quite a brand problem for our country.
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The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.
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The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.
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