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american-novelist eminent figures opposite questions raised reality rhetoric
The reality has been the opposite of the rhetoric especially when questions have been raised about eminent figures in the establishment. Serge Lang
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Why do writers write? Because it isn't there. Thomas Berger
american-novelist art asking questions science source
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
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This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit. Earl Derr Biggers
american-novelist musicality point
The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content. Rick Moody
american-novelist fiction truth
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. Leo Rosten
american-novelist babies dogs hates man
Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
american-novelist college high portland school suburb
But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here. Katherine Dunn
american-novelist explore giving haunted notion outside responsibility second source structure
The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.
love-is men my-family
I'm a family man. I just love being around my family. Carlos Beltran
love dream business
You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read. C. S. Lewis
love stupid talking
Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.
love-you brain use
It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain.
love weed cutting
It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.
love-you living-right awful
Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity! Agnes Smedley
love-is common patient
Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ... Agnes Repplier
love laughing said
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
love-is interesting giving
Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it. Aaron Stanford
sitting shelves
Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf. Brian Eno
sitting
If I'm sitting around exulting over traffic data, I'm an idiot. Ezra Klein
sitting tickets watches
The only batsman I would love to see by paying for the tickets and sitting in the stand just to watch him is none other than Sachin Tendulkar Brian Lara
sitting pouring ham
Ham shook his head, sitting down, pouring himself something to drink. "I don't get it, El. Why'd she attack him?" "She's loony," Spook said. Brandon Sanderson
sitting
We've got everything documented, got it all in a book, we're just sitting here waiting.
sitting folding chairs
I didn't get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up. Bill Murray
sitting cows tvs
If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow. Celia Cruz
sitting looks clock
Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working. Bill Gates
sitting eating good-things
A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation. Daniel Handler
smoking identity cigar
Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity. Charles Dickens
smoking chocolate baths
It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate. David Sedaris
smoking smoke
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast. Cesare Pavese
smoking challenges quitting
You can quit smoking, and never have to have a cigarette again to survive. But with food, it is a daily challenge. Jami Attenberg
smoking sake dies
For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die. Charles Lamb
smoking may lasts
May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
smoking suing three
I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and it hasn't. Kurt Vonnegut
smoking too-much cheetahs
I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much. John Green
smoking want fans
I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films. Edward Norton
travel way next
Whenever I travel I like to keep the seat next to me empty. I found a great way to do it. When someone walks down the aisle and says to you, "Is someone sitting there?" just say, "No one except the Lord." Carol Leifer
travel law tolerance
We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
travel children thinking
The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
travel dining complaining
The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.
travel traveler
Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.
travel blessing trials
it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
travel mind desire
When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.
travel light comfort
abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms of pleasure, they jar upon our sensibilities, they lessen our meager share of comforts, they are everywhere in our way, they are always an unnecessary feature in the landscape.
travel distance needs
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. Alan Turing