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american-novelist musicality point
The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content. Rick Moody
american-novelist time tour
Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book. Richard Russo
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With my gaudy, exotic material I wanted to create large, dreamy constructions that would not be decorative but powerfully expressive. Edmund White
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It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny. James F. Cooper
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Through Kinsey, I get to test my ingenuity and my skills with imaginary firearms... all without leaving the safety of my office chair. Sue Grafton
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There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble. Sinclair Lewis
american-novelist destroyed man
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. Ernest Hemingway
american-novelist behavior best enter extremely human life nuances realm
Life is extremely complicated. I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior and alternatives of that behavior. Robert Ludlum
american-novelist fiction truth
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. Leo Rosten
book night men
Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking. Charles Dickens
book reading writing
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. Charles Dickens
book knowledge men
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body. Charles Caleb Colton
book reading advice
When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted. Charles Caleb Colton
book merit lovers
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit. Charles Caleb Colton
book reading writing
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority. Charles Caleb Colton
book reading writing
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Charles Caleb Colton
book writing companion
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away. Charles Caleb Colton
book men soul
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body. Charles Caleb Colton
certain diffidence valour
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge. Charles Caleb Colton
certain one-thing
For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same. Alan Moore
certainty evidence deals
Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence. David Milne
certain head movies
I think there's certain things that I know in my head that I enjoy: action movies. Lucas Till
certain filmmaker individual observed point rather
I feel like I've been observed as an individual more than a gay person, or as a filmmaker with a certain point of view rather than a lesbian filmmaker with a gay point of view. Lisa Cholodenko
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If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees. Michael Specter
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I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty. Monica Lewinsky
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Until about four years ago, the Chinese medical profession was still following a version of the diagnostic manual that still listed homosexuality as an illness. That has also changed, but that may not have filtered down into how individual doctors or just ordinary people perceive it. Things have certainly gotten better, though, but this latest raid shows that the government can still step back, as well as forward. Scott Long
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We are providing Guidant shareholders with certainty of completion, significant upside potential and substantially more value today than the Johnson & Johnson transaction. By any objective measure, our offer is clearly superior to Johnson & Johnson. Pete Nichols
humility discovery design
It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design. Charles Caleb Colton
humor envy praise
Expect not praise without envy until you are dead. Charles Caleb Colton
humility greatness men
Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship. Charles Caleb Colton
humility angel men
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as he is to the infirmities of a man, yet suffering the tortures of a demon, and bearing them with the magnanimity of a God, do we not behold a heroism that angels may indeed surpass, but which they cannot imitate, and must admire. Charles Caleb Colton
humility men generosity
Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
humility exercise higher
He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility. Charles Caleb Colton
humorous eye men
There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets. Charles Dickens
humility pie appetite
I ate 'umble pie with an appetite. Charles Dickens
human-nature abstinence appetite
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature . Charles Dickens
instant organisms lucidity
A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates. Charles Simic
instant
You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously Edgar Rice Burroughs
instant provides steal
She provides instant defense. And she can get a steal at any time. J. M. Roberts
instant lingering readings
The readings are at once instant in their appeal, and lingering in their impact. Andrew Motion
instantly journey knew met rest share
When we all met her, we instantly knew she was the only person to share the rest of the journey with us. Heidi Range
instant
I'm a 'bound book' kind of girl. I have a Kindle, and I enjoy it for some things, like convenience or instant gratification, or all the little things that you can do with them. Lisa Unger
instant internet people sit spending time tv video watch
People just don't sit down and just watch TV at night. Between cellphones, television, video games, the Internet and instant messaging, people are just spending their time in different places. Chad Hurley
instant looking
We are looking at integrating instant messaging in every application we can. Francis deSouza
instant
There is no nature in an instant. Alfred North Whitehead
snapped sticks thinking
We were in disarray for awhile, squeezing our sticks and thinking too much, but we snapped out of it. Mats Sundin
snapped
Every person has their lulls. But I think I snapped out of my lulls and started to get better. Rudy Gay
snapped
I could have been a professional footballer and trialled with Blackburn Rovers. But I snapped my cruciate ligaments, an injury that has dogged me ever since. Maurice Flanagan
stop team three
We're going to have three of these pep rallies here. Nothing's going to stop this team now. Jim Schaus
stopped vehicles
Vehicles are being stopped and inspected as they should be. Kevin Nursick
stopping until win
We're going down there and going down to win and we're not stopping until we do that. Isaiah Tucker
stop trying
We're just trying to get them all up because we want to stop another problem. Joe Spraggins
stopped
You know what, I'm a big, big fan of 'Heroes,' but the day they told me that the end of the world was coming, and that day didn't come, I stopped watching. Enrico Colantoni
stopping
How about not equating death with stopping? Alanis Morissette
stopping action truth-is
Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned Charles R. Swindoll
stopped
She wouldn't be around if she hadn't stopped smoking, Barbara Warren
stop
We thought we could win. We started executing, slowed it down, got on a little run. Then we couldn't stop them from scoring. Dietric Slater