- Nov 07, 2020
Only Quotes
On narrowed choices and the one option that remains.
The word 'only' frames very different ideas here: a single film genre praised for its originality, a physicist's account of shifting foundations, and a stated view on Cold War-era power struggles across Europe. For more, see our Life quotes.
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- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of misconceptions regarding the Bush tax cuts, all of them deliberately propagated by none other than President Obama and his pals. The biggest lie of them all is that these tax cuts will only affect the wealthiest two percent.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spoken often of how the fantasy genre is able to, with the greatest freedom among all the genres, take a metaphor and make it real. But of course that's only the starting point.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know that all interracial groups in South Africa are relationships in which whites are superior, blacks inferior. So as a prelude, whites must be made to realize that they are only human, not superior. Same with blacks. They must be made to realize that they are also human, not inferior.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The revolutionary sees his task as liberation not only of the oppressed but also of the oppressor. Happiness can never truly exist in a state of tension.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read.
- Possibilities
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- Nov 07, 2020