Andrew Miller Quotes

#1. I regret, most of all, my shrivelled heart. So focused on the numbers. On the maths of my personal equation. Can a man change his heart? Are there ways to improve the spirit of who you are? Of why you choose?

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#2. We calculated the baseline requirement of diversity.

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#3. Sometimes the heart demands.

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#4. Often, one turns to jazz.

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#5. Like everyone else in the house, she suffers from dreams.

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#6. The poverty of the villages is almost picturesque from the windows of a coach that is not stopping.

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#7. Listening is not merely not talking ... it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us.

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#8. If the trees and the plants are brothers, if the birds are my sisters, then cats are truly my kin.

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#9. Point north and vok voort.

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#10. Can a cat be the true love of a human's life? The one great and enduring emotional connection?

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#11. All of the books, all of them, stay within the same place, the same realm. I read and read and read and I don't find anything that even considers what actually happened to us.

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#12. The robot learns to love. A single, oily tear leaks down his cheek. We don't know whether he's crying or just needs maintenance.

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#13. The forest would close its arms and that would be that. Joburg would be a mythical memory, a place of the past, of adventure stories for children, of warnings not to get lost.

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#14. Control is an advertising concept.

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#15. The visit, like all visits home for a long time now, has been an obscure failure. When is it we cease to be able to go back, truly go back? What secret door is it that closes?

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#16. Could he not go to hospital?' asks Jean-Baptiste.
The doctor flares his nostrils. 'Hospitals are very dangerous places. Particularly to one already weakened by illness.

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#17. And yet, in terms of its emotive potential, I still find art more attractive, currently, than books, which fail at a deeper level.

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#18. I started writing this to reach out to you, whoever you are, wherever you are.

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#19. She knows about men, knows a good deal of the world's character. But it is hard, whatever you have endured, to give up on love. Hard to stop thinking of it as a home you might one day find again. More than hard.

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#20. First ambitions are best. We are less brave later.

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#21. Why did the reindeer fly over the mountain? Answer: Because he couldn't fly under it.

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#22. We are, after all, human. There is something wild in those opposable thumbs.

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#23. The years of us. Our farm and our people. The children, from this distance now almost all completely interchangeable faces and forms, smiling and running and growing so easily into this other thing. So unfettered by time. So shaped by our story, yet somehow so completely untouched by any of it.

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#24. The best philosophy was wrapped up in history. It was, in effect, storytelling from a particular era. The worst was the pure sort. University stuff.

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#25. Art, I subsequently realised, is like that. It softens by association and implication. It renders the hard pliable. It creates gaps, gaping holes really, in possibility.

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#26. Why are there no handsome priest in Paris? One has no inclination to confess anything to an ugly man.

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#27. I'm going to play,' says Armand, lacing his fingers and cracking the knuckles. 'A pair of these lads can pump for me.'
'Is this a time for playing?' asks Jean Baptiste. Then, 'You are right. You have never been more so.

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#28. Intimacy, finally, had got the better of us.

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#29. It's not about fucking," she asserted as we clucked nervously over her diagram. "It's about our species. We need to breed.

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