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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
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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.
claiming genuine quite sort trying wanting
I have quite a strong sense of wanting to sort of, wanting to help others. I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others. John Key
claiming sell television
When we sell television properties, ... we're already claiming all of California.
claiming mean pay time until
When conservatives talk to one another, pay attention: they say what they want to do, and mean it. And will do just about anything to get there - even, or especially, claiming that they don't want to do the thing they want to do, until the time is ripe, and they can do it. Rick Perlstein
claiming opened window
Basically, we're claiming that we've opened a new window on the galaxy. David Bennett
claiming giving goal
My goal is to have this be the first annual. And we're claiming it as the inaugural year, and we're giving away a lot of awards.
claiming form though
Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism. Stanley Hauerwas
claiming mind travels
The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes. Bernard Beckett
claiming degree educated fantasy great history past time treatment using work
When we work with history, to a very great degree we are all guessing. But by using motifs of time and history in a fantasy setting, we are acknowledging that this educated guesswork, invention, fantasy underlie our treatment of the past and its peoples - and we are not claiming a right to do with them as we will. Guy Gavriel Kay
claiming curing dozens false gathering holy jesus land people walked
There were dozens of people who walked through the Holy Land claiming to be the Messiah, curing the sick, exorcising demons, challenging Rome, gathering followers. In a way, there's nothing unique about what Jesus did. In fact, many of these so-called false Messiahs we know by name. Reza Aslan
easier
We have to get better at it. That's one are where we really, really have to get better. Not enough desperation. Once we get that we'll make it a lot easier on ourselves. Mark Recchi
easier free hard paid whenever
Whenever you have a five-man that makes free throws, it makes it a lot easier because he's going to get fouled the most. He's been working hard and it's paid off for him. Brad Soderberg
easier extra motivation next opponents time
We want opponents to know we are going to put up a fight. Unfortunately, we made it a little easier for Maine. We should have extra motivation the next time out.
easier increase seem though wellbeing
Make it easier to do things that increase your wellbeing before you have to make a choice because a lot of our choices, though they seem small in the moment, have a big effect. Tom Rath
easier made things-to-do
Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically. Brian Eno
easier ifs
It's easier to change directions if you are in motion. David Allen
easier organized stay
I'm kind of in between organized and messy, so if I have the right things to keep me organized, it's easier for me to stay that way. If I don't have the right tools, I'm a train wreck. Odette Annable
easier grew pushed ski work
When I grew up, I had a lot of fun ski racing with my friends. We pushed each other, and this made it easier to work hard. Ted Ligety
easier experience individual level matches player pumped team
This will probably be the only experience I'll have being on a team because it's such and individual sport. I kind of find it easier to get pumped up. You're going to have matches where a player isn't as the same level as you are, but it's still a lot of fun.
memoirs people tend
I'm very detail oriented. I think that's why people enjoy my memoirs - because I tend to remember everything. Jen Lancaster
tend thinking
When I'm thinking like a historian, I tend to be a little depressed. But when I'm thinking like a Christian, I tend to be optimistic. Mark Noll
tends
A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise. John Updike
tend writers
The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.
tend
A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
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West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view. James Salter
tend
In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.
tendency
I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan. Laurie Helgoe
tend types
Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure. Timothy Noah
tend
When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth. Andy Serkis
truth mathematical-equations discovery
If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries. Carl Friedrich Gauss
truth philosopher corny
When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
truth naked nudity
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. Agnes Repplier
truthful wonderful guidance
If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance. Charlie Chaplin
truth men hands
Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final. Charles Sumner
truth greatness men
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. Charles Dickens
truth light lines
Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines. Charles Caleb Colton
truth roots errors
It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors
truth honesty integrity
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.