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Martin Buber Quotes

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: german
Birth: February 8, 1878 - June 13, 1965

Topics

Love World Through Embracing Beings

Theater originated with technology. People forget that.

Technology People Forget Theater

You know if something is good because you remember the lines because it is written so well. The rhythm of the speech is spot on.

Rob James-Collier

Good Remember Speech You Know Well

The thing about living in New York as a writer is that you hit that age where it feels like everyone has a book all at the same time. It's like that one year where you're invited to twenty weddings.

Age Time New York Book Year You

I believe in being prepared. I'm going to say that. Pray, prepare, proceed.

Believe Say I Believe Prepare Going

I showed up in L.A. with $500 and a backpack and I stayed at a shelter, so nobody handed me anything. I worked for every single thing that I have.

Me Nobody Single Up Anything Every

There's always a need at a critical time for poetry.

Time Poetry Need Always Critical

How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?

Love Daughter Relationship Child You

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

William Hazlitt

Friend Excellence Self-Love Choose

When I grew up Carl Lewis was still running, Maurice Greene was running - he was that figure I see, like Michael Johnson. I really wanted to look up to the fast guys - so those two guys were some of the guys I looked up to.

Look Fast Two See I See Up

Each one seems to be, in some way, essentially different from the others, and each is a surprise to me. I think that making books, or any kind of art, might also be like mining. The artist digs into his or her life and imagination and never knows what they'll find. That's the adventure.

Mordicai Gerstein

Life Art Imagination Adventure Me

If you cut down the forest, you know what happens: The whole of Asia turns into a desert. Without water, you're talking civil unrest, war, mud slides - the whole bloody lot.

Water War Desert Forest Talking You

I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say.

Curious People Say Hearing Own

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