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I was a 'reverence for life' man - 'see life steadily and see it whole' - in my days as a lecturer in English lit. We are, I argued, if not exactly 'saved' by reading, at least partially 'repaired' by it: made the better morally and existentially.

Howard Jacobson

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LifeManReadingBetterSeeDays

A woman is more than the sum of her parts. So I had an opportunity to present some work at the White House. I chose not just to talk about the sky, the planet, love or heartache. I wanted to actually be there, to place a mark on that moment.

Jill Scott

WorkLoveOpportunityMomentSky

The Internet has become important on the world's stage.

Steve Crocker

WorldInternetImportantBecome

I didn't think you could just become a rock and roll singer.

Tom Petty

ThinkRock And RollYouRockBecome

My friends all tell me I was born with a horseshoe up my butt.

Michael Trucco

MeFriendsBornButtTellUp

I'd get scripts and think: 'What's the point of this?'

Michael Keaton

ThinkPointGetScripts

I've been on Letterman a couple of times. I've been on Leno more than a couple times, and now Letterman hates me because I've been on Leno more than him. They're very jealous of one another, as you know.

Mitt Romney

MeJealousYouKnowNowMore

Brazil is where I belong, the place that feels like home. They love their family, their country and God, and are not afraid to let anybody know it.

Dionne Warwick

FamilyLoveHomeGodCountryPlace

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?

Chester W. Nimitz

FailureSucceedConsequencesSupplies

I didn't know a single person who had ever been there. I wasn't even sure how to spell Chechnya.

Anthony Marra

PersonKnowSingleSureBeenEven

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

Philip Massinger

PatienceFindVirtueHereHarbor

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

William James

HeartWorldThingsCautionWhere

I want to write about serious things, but I want to write about them in a way that makes them accessible to a large number of people - to take them through the argument by dramatizing the circumstances in which these issues are being discussed.

Sebastian Faulks

PeopleArgumentSeriousCircumstances

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