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I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#always #appreciated #because #cliches #copies

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#activist #actor #because #empathy #exactly

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#before #chance #gets #getting #history

That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

#dependent #deteriorated #economic #find #happened

Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand. ↗

— Olivier Sarkozy

#creating #debt #errand #fool #more

Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn't hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us. ↗

— Al Lopez

#everybody #hate #hated #just #says

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#because #catharsis #concerned #i #i write

You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl. ↗

— Peter Sarsgaard

#attached #bravery #every #got #life

As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#came #german #i #know #number

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#begin #clean #dreamers #guns #homes