Kracht En Quotes & Sayings

As long as I breathe, I hope. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities. — Rand Paul

Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters. — Elbert Hubbard

The Australian Gerald Murnane, a genius on the level of Beckett, is known in Australia and Sweden but almost nowhere else. And I loved Reality Hunger, David Shields' recent novel take on the art of the novel. — Teju Cole

You're a goddess among those who think themselves demigods. — P.C. Cast

There is also the issue of personal privacy when it comes the executive power. Throughout our nation's history, whether it was habeas corpus during the Civil War, Alien and Sedition Acts in World War I, or Japanese internment camps in World War II, presidents have gone too far. — Dick Durbin

To be of use and to know how to show yourself of use, is to be twice as useful. — Baltasar Gracian

I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now called - nay we call ourselves and write our name - Crusoe; and so my companions always called me. — Daniel Defoe

For at eight o'clock the world came to an end. It was reading time. The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. — Diane Setterfield

People are making better and better small budge independent films these days. — Mike Birbiglia

Below me, in the foundations of the house, I could hear the clothes I'd buried there growing themselves a body. — Margaret Atwood