Ilana Quotes

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Kenapa harus takut gelap kalau ada banyak hal indah yang hanya bisa dilihat sewaktu gelap? -Nishimura Kazuto
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Ilana Tan (Winter in Tokyo)
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Seandainya masih ada harapan - sekecil apapun untuk mengubah kenyataan, ia bersedia menggantungkan seluruh hidupnya demi harapan.
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Ilana Tan (Autumn in Paris)
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Apakah ada yang tahu bagaimana rasanya mencintai seseorang yang tidak boleh dicintai? Aku tahu. Hidup ini sungguh aneh, juga tidak adil. Suatu kali hidup melambungkanmu setinggi langit, kali lainnya hidup menghempaskanmu begitu keras ke bumi. Ketika aku menyadari dialah satu-satunya yang paling kubutuhkan dalam hidup ini, kenyataan berteriak di telingaku dia juga satu-satunya orang yang tidak boleh kudapatkan.
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Ilana Tan (Autumn in Paris)
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Selama dia bahagia, aku juga akan bahagia. Sesederhana itu.
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Ilana Tan (Autumn in Paris)
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Di mana pun dia berada. Dan kuharap dia tahu bahwa selama aku masih bernafas, aku akan selalu mencintainya. Sepenuh hatiku. Selamanya. -Alex Hirano
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Ilana Tan (Sunshine Becomes You)
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walaupun tidak ada hal lain di dunia ini yang bisa kau percayai, percayalah bahwa aku mecintaimu. sepenuh hatiku.
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Ilana Tan (Sunshine Becomes You)
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Suatu kali hidup melambungkanmu setinggi langit,kali lainnya hidup menghempaskanmu begitu keras ke bumi
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Ilana Tan (Autumn in Paris)
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Hari yang indah selalu bisa membuat semua orang gembira, bukan?
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Ilana Tan (Sunshine Becomes You)
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Mungkin kau tidak membutuhkanku. Tapi aku membutuhkanmu.
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Ilana Tan (Sunshine Becomes You)
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Sekarang... Saat ini saja... Untuk beberapa detik saja... aku ingin bersikap egois. Aku ingin melupakan semua orang, mengabaikan dunia, dan melupakan asal-usul serta latar belakangku. Tanpa beban, tuntutan, atau harapan, aku ingin mengaku. Aku mencintainya.
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Ilana Tan (Autumn in Paris)
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Kalau aku mengatakannya, reaksi apa yang akan kau berikan? Apakah kau akan menerima pengakuanku? Apakah kau akan percaya padaku? Apakah kau masih akan menatapku seperti ini? Atau apakah justru kau akan menjauh dariku? Meninggalkanku? Tapi aku tahu aku harus mengatakannya padamu. Aku tidak mungkin menyimpannya selamanya. Entah bagimana reaksimu nanti setelah mendengarnya, aku hanya berharap satu hal padamu. Jangan pergi dariku. Tetaplah disisiku
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Ilana Tan
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Apakah ada yang tahu bagaimana rasanya mencintai seseorang yang tidak boleh dicintai? Aku tahu.
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Ilana Tan (Autumn in Paris)
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Sebenarnya aku tidak bermaksud menghindarimu. Aku hanya berusaha menghindari perasaanku sendiri dengan menghindarimu (Mia)
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Ilana Tan, Sunshine Becomes You
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Dia juga tidak perlu melakukan apa-apa. Yang paling penting adalah kenyataan bahwa dia ada dan saya bisa melihatnya.” –Nishimura Kazuto–
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Ilana Tan (Winter in Tokyo)
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Ada saatnya ketika rasa sakit sama sekali tidak penting. - Nishimura Kazuto
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Ilana Tan (Winter in Tokyo)
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Hidup ini penuh dengan pilihan dan kalau kita memili bersikap tidak bertanggung jawab maka kita sendiri yang harus menerima akibatnya. - Naomi Ishida
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Ilana Tan (Spring in London)
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Dulu kalau aku tak begitu, kini bagaimana aku? Dulu kalau aku tak di situ, kini di mana aku? Kini kalau aku begini, kelak bagaimana aku? Kini kalau aku di sini, kelak di mana aku? Tak tahu kelak ataupun dulu Cuma tahu kini aku begini Cuma tahu kini aku di sini Dan kini aku melihatmu
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Ilana Tan
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Kurasa aku sudah terbiasa selalu melihatmu, jadi kalau kau tidak ada, aku merasa agak aneh. Seolah-olah ada sesuatu yang... salah.
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Ilana Tan (Spring in London)
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selama dia bahagia aku pun bahagia sesederhana itu
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Ilana Tan (Autumn in Paris)
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Aku menyadari sesuatu selama aku berada disini. Aku rindu padamu. - Danny Jo
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Ilana Tan (Spring in London)
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jangan marah padaku kalau aku menangis, Hari ini saja Kau boleh lihat sendiri nanti. Kau akan lihat tak lama lagi aku akan kembali bekerja, tertawa, dan mengoceh seperti biasa, aku janji.
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Ilana Tan, Autumn in Paris
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Aku bersedia melakukan apa pun agar kau tetap berada di sisiku, bersamaku, selama kau juga menginginkan hal yang sama.
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Ilana Tan (In a Blue Moon)
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Walaupun tidak ada hal lain di dunia ini yang bisa kau percayai, percayalah bahwa aku mencintaimu. Sepenuh hatiku
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Ilana Tan (Sunshine Becomes You)
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Mimpi tidak akan bertahan lama. Kita boleh saja hidup dalam mimpi, tetapi cepat atau lambat kenyataan akan mendesan masuk, dan ketika kenyataan mendesak masuk dan berhadapan denganmu, kau hanya bisa menerima. - Keiko Ishida
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Ilana Tan (Winter in Tokyo)
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Kau mungkin tidak sempurna, tapi kau sempurna untukku
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Ilana Tan (In a Blue Moon)
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Aku sudah bertahan seumur hidup tanpa dirimu, jadi aku yakin aku akan baik-baik saja. - Naomi Ishida
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Ilana Tan (Spring in London)
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Kau tidak bisa memaksakan diri mencintai seseorang, sama seperti kau tidak bisa memaksakan diri memberikan orang yang kau cintai.
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Ilana Tan, Sunshine Becomes You
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Waktu memang berlalu dengan cepat ketika kau sedang bersenang-senang. - Naomi Ishida
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Ilana Tan (Spring in London)
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Karena sesuatu yang indah akan terlihat saat gelap. Nishimura Kazuto
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Ilana Tan (Winter in Tokyo)
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All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.” ― Antoine de Saint-ExupΓ©ry, The Little Prince
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ilana Graf
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Suatu kali hidup melambungkanmu setinggi langit, kali lainnya hidup menghempaskanmu begitu ke bumi.
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Ilana Tan (Autumn in Paris)
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Suatu kali hidup melambungkanmu setinggi langit, kali lainnya hidup mengempaskanmu begitu keras ke bumi
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Ilana Tan
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Pasti akan terdengar aneh kalau seseorang yang tidak kaukenal berkata padamu bahwa kalian sudah berkencan dan kau pernah menyatakan perasaan suka pada orang itu. Kau pasti tidak akan percaya. Tidak ada orang yang akan percaya.
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Ilana Tan (Winter in Tokyo)
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Pada saat kita bertemu lagi nanti, kalau perasaanmu masih belum berubah, kalau kau masih merasa sulit percaya padaku, kalau kau tidak mau melihatku lagi, tidak mau berurusan denganku lagi, kau hanya perlu mengatakannya dan aku akan menuruti apapun yg kau katakan.” (Spring in London)
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Ilana Tan
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Apakah ada yang tahu bagaimana rasanya mencintai seseorang yang tidak boleh dicintai? Aku tahu.
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Ilana Tan, Autumn in Paris
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Menjadi pengurus rumahmu memberiku alasan untuk menjalani hidupku. Lalu perlahan-lahan aku sadar bahwa kau juga menjadi salah satu alasanku untuk bertahan hidup.
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Ilana Tan (Sunshine Becomes You)
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Jangan marah padaku kalau aku menangis.... Hari ini saja.... Kau boleh lihat sendiri nanti. Kau akan lihat tidak lama lagi aku akan kembali bekerja, tertawa, dan mengoceh seperti biasa.... Aku janji.... -Tara Dupont
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Ilana Tan (Autumn in Paris)
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Ia tidak ingin mendengarnya. Ia tidak mau mengakuinya, tetapi jauh di dalam lubuk hatinya ia tahu ia merasakan hal itu. Tetapi itu perasaan terlarang baginya. Ia tidak boleh merasakannya. Tidak boleh memikirkannya. Lebih mudah bersikap seolah-olah perasaan itu tidak nyata. Jadi itulah yang ia lakukan.
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Ilana Tan (Sunshine Becomes You)
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Kalau dia bahagia, aku juga merasa bahagia. Sesederhana itu.
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Ilana Tan (Autumn in Paris)
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There is something nice about a library, isn't there?" Mr. Curtis said. He nodded and took in the familiar scenery. "The scent of ink and worn, dusty pages.
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Ilana Waters (The Adventures of Stanley Delacourt (Hartlandia, #1))
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You can't throw kindling on a fire and deny you kept it burning. And right now, cowardice is that kindling.
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Ilana Waters (The Adventures of Stanley Delacourt (Hartlandia, #1))
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both Ilana and Vincent cradled their tenderness in harsh words. They were so different from each other in every other sense. But maybe this place made all of us that way. Taught us to hide love in sharp edges.
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Carissa Broadbent (The Serpent and the Wings of Night (Crowns of Nyaxia, #1))
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Kenapa kau selalu memanggilku Clark? Kau bisa memanggilku dengan nama depan, kau tahu, sama seperti yang lainnya." | "Karena sudah terbiasa. Lagi pula, aku suka menjadi satu-satunya orang yang memanggilmu Clark. Kurasa satu-satunya hal yang bisa membuatku memanggil nama depanmu adalah kalau kau menikah denganku. Kalau itu terjadi, berarti kau akan menjadi Mia Hirano. Dan saat itu aku tidak mungkin memanggilmu dengan nama belakang, bukan?
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Ilana Tan
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Katakan padaku. Kalau kau sudah minta maaf, tapi permintaan maafmu tidak diterima. Apa yang harus kau lakukan?
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Ilana Tan
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What is your dissertation, Ilana Davita?” β€œBabel and Camus: Twists of Fate and Faith. Babel’s The Red Cavalry and Camus’s The Stranger.
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Chaim Potok (Old Men at Midnight: Stories (Ballantine Reader's Circle))
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Hidup Tanpa nya sama sekali bukan hidup..
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We cannot back down from the idea that we are deserving of support and understanding in our time of need, but the reality is we might not get it from the people we expect it from.
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Ilana Jacqueline (Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness: How to Stay Sane and Live One Step Ahead of Your Symptoms)
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It would occur to her later that sympathy is disarming even without surprise, but unexpected sympathy leaves no defense.
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Ilana C. Myer (Last Song Before Night)
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It wasn’t me these people cared about; it was my capacity to soak up pain like a sponge.
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Ilana Masad
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The neoconservative pseudo-conservatives speak like Tocqueville but act like Robespierre.
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Ilana Mercer (The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed)
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What’s red and green and goes 80 miles an hour? A frog in a blender.
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Ilana Weitzman (Jokelopedia: The Biggest, Best, Silliest, Dumbest Joke Book Ever!)
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Kau tahu berapa lama aku mencarimu? Aku sudah berlari mengelilingi kota Paris demi mencarimu.
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Ilana Tan (Autumn in Paris)
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A surface, she reflected, exists for so many reasons, concealment only one. For it may also serve to protect, from others and from oneself. And perhaps, in an unexpected twist, to protect others from oneself.
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Ilana C. Myer (Last Song Before Night)
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Grief, she realizes, is selfish. It’s about what she’s losing, not what her mother lost, not what her mother still had time or desire to do in her lifeβ€”and surely there was a lot. Iris was young, as old people go.
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Ilana Masad (All My Mother's Lovers)
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The distance Maggie still feels from the existence of her grief makes her intensely self-conscious, as if she’s acting in a movie about a woman who goes home when her mother dies rather than actually experiencing it.
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Ilana Masad (All My Mother's Lovers)
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The poor and people of color are yoked to the abject; white people use its exploration as a path toward self-liberation. It’s a valid critiqueβ€”and one that Broad City has increasingly interrogated, suggesting, especially in later seasons, the extent of Abbi and Ilana’s privilege.
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Anne Helen Petersen (Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman)
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It was one of those intimate, extremely intense friendships that fizzled out when they were no longer in the same space.
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Ilana Masad (All My Mother's Lovers)
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feeling and showing insecurity were two different things, and that the latter was deeply unattractive
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Ilana Masad (All My Mother's Lovers)
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Everyone has reasons for everything they do. Good, bad, racist, phobic, logical or not, doesn’t really matter. The reasons exist, for them.
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Ilana Masad (All My Mother's Lovers)
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Do I have your leave to keep on clinging to a dream of you?
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Ilana C. Myer (Last Song Before Night)
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I stayed indoors most of the time, which kept my skin very white. And my hair was as black as Ilana's. I wore black clothes all the time, just as she did. When I was in elementary school the other girls had called me a witch, scratched me with their nails, giggled behind their notebooks. But now I was in high school and suddenly everyone wore black and had pale skin and cultivated a disheveled haunted look. Now I blended in.
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Judy Budnitz (If I Told You Once)
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She read books of poetry, though they had lately begun to stoke her fury. It was all very well for these poets, who wandered off to have adventures and then could string them to words, to music. Anything she might write would be formless, a creature of rage and stormcloud. No music there.
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Ilana C. Myer (Last Song Before Night)
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It truly is a team sport, and we have the best team in town. But it’s my relationship with Ilana that I cherish most. We have such a strong partnership and have learned how we work most efficiently: I need coffee, she needs tea. When we’re stressed, I pace around and use a weird neck massager I bought online that everyone makes fun of me for, and she knits. When we’re writing together she types, because she’s faster and better at grammar. We actually FaceTime when we’re not in the same city and are constantly texting each other ideas for jokes or observations to potentially use (I recently texted her from Asheville: girl with flip-flops tucked into one strap of tank top). Looking back now at over ten years of doing comedy and running a business with her I can see how our collaboration has expanded and contracted. But it’s the problem-solving aspect of this industry, the producing, the strategy, the realizing that we could put our heads together and figure out the best solution, that has made our relationship and friendship what it is. Because that spills into everything. We both have individual careers now, but those other projects have only been motivating and inspiring to each other and the show. We bring back what we’ve learned on the other sets, in the other negotiations, in the other writers’ rooms or press situations. I’m very lucky to have jumped into this with Ilana Rose Glazer, the ballsy, curly-haired, openhearted, nineteen-year-old girl that cracked me up that night at the corner of the bar at McManus. So many wonderful things have happened since we began working together, but there are a lot of confusing, life-altering things in there too, and it’s such a relief to have someone who completely understands the good and the bad.
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Abbi Jacobson (I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff)
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Our unhappy trek through the wreck of the New South Africa begins with the facts, nothing but the facts.
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Ilana Mercer (Into the Cannibal's Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa)
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A snail is mugged by three turtles, but when the police ask the snail to give a description of what happened, all he can say is, β€œI don’t know, officer. It all happened so fast!
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Ilana Weitzman (Jokelopedia: The Biggest, Best, Silliest, Dumbest Joke Book Ever!)
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A millipede ran into a centipede on the street. The millipede said in surprise, β€œWow, what are the odds of this?!” β€œOh,” answered the centipede, β€œabout 10 to 1.
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Ilana Weitzman (Jokelopedia: The Biggest, Best, Silliest, Dumbest Joke Book Ever!)
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TEACHER: Kevin, how do you spell crocodile? KEVIN: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L. TEACHER: No, I’m sorry, that’s wrong. KEVIN: It can’t be. You asked me how I spell it!
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Ilana Weitzman (Jokelopedia: The Biggest, Best, Silliest, Dumbest Joke Book Ever!)
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TEACHER: Mrs. Jones, I asked you to come in to discuss Johnny’s appearance. MRS. JONES: Why? What’s wrong with his appearance? TEACHER: He hasn’t made one in this classroom since September.
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Ilana Weitzman (Jokelopedia: The Biggest, Best, Silliest, Dumbest Joke Book Ever!)
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What’s the strongest insect in the world? A snail. It carries its house on its back!
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Ilana Weitzman (Jokelopedia: The Biggest, Best, Silliest, Dumbest Joke Book Ever!)
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Second-order information, writes communications professor Ilana Gershon, is the meaning of a message beyond its explicit terms, β€œthe information that can guide you into understanding how particular words and statements should be interpreted.” Linguistic anthropologists refer to this as metapragmatics.
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Dan Slater (Love in the Time of Algorithms: What Technology Does to Meeting and Mating)
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Media ideologies about one medium are always affected by the media ideologies people have about other media.
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Ilana Gershon (The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting over New Media)
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In democratic South Africa, dispossession is nine-tenths of the law.
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Ilana Mercer (Into the Cannibal's Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa)
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From the safety and comfort of rarefied zip codes, open-border theorists tutor the little people in the positive economic effects on productivity and economic growth of high population density. But regular folks don't have to travel to Cairo or Karachi to discover that this urban theory is an urban myth.
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Ilana Mercer (The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed)
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Donald Trump is acting as a political Samson that threatens to bring the den of iniquity crashing down on its patrons.
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Ilana Mercer (The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed)
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To Donal Trump, making America great means making the people great. To the political cast, conversely, making America great means making government great.
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Ilana Mercer (The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed)
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To Donald Trump, making America great means making the people great. To the political cast, conversely, making America great means making government great.
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Ilana Mercer (The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed)
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To listen to the nation’s psychiatric gurus is to come to believe that crimes are caused, not committed. Perpetrators don’t do the crime, but are driven to their dirty deeds by a confluence of uncontrollable factors, victims of societal forces or organic brain disease.
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Ilana Mercer
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The psychiatric endeavorβ€”voodoo, reallyβ€”is premised on the medicalization of misconduct.
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Ilana Mercer
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Republicans are the drag queens of politics. Peel away the pules for family, faith and fetuses and one discovers either neoconservative welfare-warfare statists or global social democrats ...
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Ilana Mercer (Broad Sides - One Woman's Clash with a Corrupt Culture)
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Speaker Ryan, who voted for the $1.1 trillion 2016 Omnibus Spending Bill, demanding Trump show him his conservative credentials is as though a guy who never built a thing were to mock a man who has built lots of things.
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Ilana Mercer (The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed)
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The Republican Party under Genghis Bush did the devil's work. Bar the sainted Ron Paul, not a dog of a Republican lifted his leg in protest of the unjust war on Iraq.
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Ilana Mercer (The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed)
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The cable commentariat is a cog in the corpulent D.C. fleshpot.
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Ilana Mercer (The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed)
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Survivalβ€”of the species of the culture of the faithβ€”has a biological dimension. What would have befallen our Hominid ancestors had they implemented gender parity in their hunter-gatherer societiesβ€”sometimes the women hunt while the men forage and mind the kids, and vice versa?
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Ilana Mercer (The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed)
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In the service of statist sameness, the male-vs.-female biological imperatives are rapidly, if reflexively, being dissolved. Dissolving 'The Constitution of Man' is dangerous to civilization, for a subservient, effete civilization will not survive the onslaught of Islam.
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Ilana Mercer (The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed)
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There was an inscription at the end in Latin. It’s translated in one of the guidebooks: What you are, we used to be. What we are, you will be. What do you think they meant?” Janey looked confused, torn, Ilana was sure, between her wish to have her mother explain and not wanting to admit her incomprehension to her sister. β€œIt’s obvious,” Sarah said. β€œThe bones were once people. Someday we’ll be just bones.” β€œI knew that.” β€œLiar,
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Lisa Gornick (Louisa Meets Bear)
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The original Constitution is a dead letter, having suffered decades of legislative, executive and judicial usurpation. The natural- and common law traditions, once loadstars for lawmakers, have been buried under the rubble of legislation and statute. However much one shovels the muck of lawmaking aside, natural justice and the Founders' original intent remain buried too deep to exhume.
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Ilana Mercer (The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed)
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The Donald has the political players rising on their hind legs in defense of their realm. And he has hitherto shattered the totems and taboos these players enforce. Debated as never before are vexations like immigration, Islam, and, yes, the legitimacy of the Republican National Committee.
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Ilana Mercer (The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed)
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Ilana Weitzman (Jokelopedia: The Biggest, Best, Silliest, Dumbest Joke Book Ever!)
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Permintaan maaf tidak akan mengubah apa yang sudah terjadi. Tidak akan menjadikan semuanya baik-baik saja.
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Ilana Tan, In a Blue Moon
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Permintaan maaf tidak akan mengubah apa yang sudah terjadi. Tidak akan menjadikan semuanya baik-baik saja.
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Ilana Tan (In a Blue Moon)
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Being a big sister hasn't always been particularly important to her, but it certainly reminds her of the passing of time.
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Ilana Masad (All My Mother's Lovers)
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Did you hear about the underwear that lost its job? It was bummed.
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Ilana Weitzman (Jokelopedia: The Biggest, Best, Silliest, Dumbest Joke Book Ever!)
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Mike went fishing one day, but at the end he had not caught a single fish. On the way back home, he stopped at a fish store. β€œI want to buy three trout, please,” he said to the owner. β€œBut instead of putting them in a bag, can you throw them to me?” β€œThrow them? Why do you want me to do that?” the owner asked. Mike replied, β€œSo I can tell everyone that I caught three fish!
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Ilana Weitzman (Jokelopedia: The Biggest, Best, Silliest, Dumbest Joke Book Ever!)
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Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker were duking it out somewhere in space. Darth Vader said to Luke, β€œJoin me and experience the power of the dark side!” Luke replied, β€œThe dark side can’t be that powerful.” β€œYes it is. I even know what you’re getting for Christmas, Luke.” β€œHow?” Luke asked. β€œI felt your presents.
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Ilana Weitzman (Jokelopedia: The Biggest, Best, Silliest, Dumbest Joke Book Ever!)
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Rabbi Yossi is commonly understood as suggesting that in order to learn Torah deeply and fully, you need to strip yourself of any preconceived notions and start anew. But I’m not so sure. To me it seems that the most meaningful way to study Torah is by searching for the interconnections and resonances between Torah and the rest of one’s reading, learning, and living. Torah cannot be studied in a vacuum.
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Ilana Kurshan (If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir)
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I did not feel proud or proprietary about my editorial work. Certainly I could not imagine ever reacting like Rav Sheshet, who grew furious when his student quoted one of his teachings without attribution and hissed, β€œWhoever stung me in this wayβ€”may he be stung by a scorpion!” (Bechorot 31b).
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Ilana Kurshan (If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir)
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The Talmud in Niddah (16b) teaches that β€œall is in the hands of heaven except the fear of heaven.
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Ilana Kurshan (If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir)
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Studying Torah is about novelty. It is about conquering new territory, synthesizing more and more information, and coming up with insights that cast everything that came before in a whole new light.
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Ilana Kurshan (If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir)
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prayer is about taking the familiarβ€”the same words we say day after dayβ€”and saying them with such concentration and fervor that it is as if we are renewing each day the miracle of their creation.
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Ilana Kurshan (If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir)
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The rabbis teach (Berachot 32b) that prayer is one of four activities that require vigorous strength (the others are Torah study, good deeds, and the pursuit of a trade).
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Ilana Kurshan (If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir)