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Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10 000 years.
~ Jared Diamond
Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
And it's always the lilac garden on the other side of the river. If the soul should ask you if that is far from here, you should say, On the other side of the river, not this one, but the one over there.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Trump displays many of the traits of a proto-fascist, and he is also part of a wave of right-wing nationalist movements that is sweeping the West. He can also be positioned in the long, American right-wing tradition of fearing 'the Other,' whether they are Catholics or Jews or, now, Muslims.
~ Peter Bergen
In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture of myself as writing crime novels. I like fairly strong narratives, but it's a way of getting a plot moving.
~ Peter Temple
While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people.
~ Peter Jackson
I want the good players of other clubs to stay in the Bundesliga.
~ Arjen Robben
We all have the right to comment about each other.
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
The first time I thought about attempting a body suspension was after watching a documentary on rites-of-passage ceremonies from other cultures. I was completely intrigued by what these people put their bodies through.
~ Criss Angel
It is the Other whom one must love as oneself if one does not desire to idolize and hate the Other in the depths of the underground.
~ Rene Girard
The Christmas story has such power and such appeal every year. There are other stories we get tired of. You think of your favorite movie you don't want to watch it 15 times.
~ Frederica Mathewes-Green
The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future.
~ Emmanuel Levinas
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
~ Carrie Fisher
I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.
~ Tilda Swinton
Vassily cleared his throat, probably impatient with Gabriel's bookshelf manners. 'You'll have to excuse me,' Gabriel said, putting back the booklet, 'I have a severe addiction to ink.' 'Don't we all?' Vassily nodded. 'Thank God we have other addictions to assuage it a little.
~ Jean-Christophe Valtat
Each question would open a door. What Glenn had to ask herself was, did she want to step through them to the other side?
~ Jeff Hirsch
Dualism is the proto-dream underlying clock time and all modern dreaming. Dualism might be defined as the illusion that there are two discreet principles in the universe: self and other. Dualism implies isolation, conflict, and a continuous struggle of opposing forces. For this reason, actions based on dualistic vision are simplistic, aggressive, and destructive.
~ Eliot Cowan
Linking the national identity with race is not unique to the United States. National identity always requires an other to define it. But this country has linked its identity with race to an extraordinary degree, matched only by two other settler states: South Africa and Israel.
~ Elizabeth Martínez
I definitely feel like there's a lot of terrible things on the Internet, obviously. You can really pretty much find anything on there. It's pretty awful. And the crazy thing is that we don't even access that much of it - it's like the dark web or whatever. It's the other Internet that we don't even access.
~ Miles Heizer
There are almost no other websites that have the type of readership we do.
~ Dave Portnoy
Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.
~ Deborah Tannen
here is the fear of the other thing, the relentless thing, your body drowning in gravity. This is the in-between, the waiting that happens in the space between
~ Richard Siken
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other sins are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful -- just stupid.)
~ Robert A. Heinlein
While I am I, and you are you, So long as the world contains us both … While the one eludes, must the other pursue.
~ Robert Browning