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american-novelist musicality point
The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content. Rick Moody
american-novelist burden freedom lose realize until
Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. Margaret Mitchell
american-novelist time tour
Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book. Richard Russo
american-novelist create decorative exotic material
With my gaudy, exotic material I wanted to create large, dreamy constructions that would not be decorative but powerfully expressive. Edmund White
american-novelist exhibit form masses men public substitute usual vice
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
american-novelist imaginary ingenuity leaving office safety skills test
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
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.
sitcom decided
I decided sitcoms weren't for me. David Alan Grier
situation tough
We're in a tough situation right now. We'll find out what we're made of. Gary Williams
situation time
We're in a situation where time is of the essence, Herman Edwards
situation strong
We're in a situation now where you have to play it out and fortunately we have very strong contingency plans.
sitting done news
The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio. Ed Bradley
sitting scripts film
I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script. Deepa Mehta
situation our-lives
There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives. Deborah Norville
sitting eating good-things
A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation. Daniel Handler
sitting
We've got everything documented, got it all in a book, we're just sitting here waiting.
trouble mercy heavy
These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies. Charles Spurgeon
trouble ifs
If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them. David Tang
trouble my-family bigs
If not for my family, I would have been in big trouble. Chad Everett
trouble crosses
Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one. Edith Stein
trouble economy free-market
The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work. Dean Acheson
trouble poor-richard
They who have nothing to trouble them, will be troubled at nothing. Benjamin Franklin
trouble reason authority
As soon as we abandon our reason and are content to rely on authority, there is no end to our troubles. Bertrand Russell
trouble
We're soft. If we don't toughen up, we're in a lot of trouble.
trouble
We're going to have to do something. If this continues, we're going to be in a whole lot of trouble.
women moral walks
A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing. Charles Dudley Warner
women imagination sentimental
Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.
women resentment consequence
Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment. Charles Caleb Colton
women flower sun
Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
women want ornaments
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.
women intellectual female
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
women doe attention
The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.
women modest bashful
Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
women decorum length
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.