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american-author government happens moved power protect quickly sure
We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer. Michael Connelly
american-author certainly changed exterior growing safe
The exterior circumstances have certainly changed for many children. The world is not the safe place it was when I was growing up. Beverly Cleary
american-author failure
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality. Toni Cade Bambara
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I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.
american-author constant deal material meditating remind serve simply understanding
But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world. Sandra Cisneros
american-author american-cartoonist learned meaning rest team truly
This was a team that truly learned the meaning of (what it is like to) be a team, and they can take that with them the rest of their lives. Tim Collins
american-author deserves human race
The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it. Elizabeth Janeway
american-author beings demands efforts existence history human personal shaped whose
Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
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It's a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different. Evan Hunter
character
You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing. Carlos Ghosn
character long shapes
At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window. Carlos Fuentes
character civilization games
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.
character warrior men
Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit. Carlos Castaneda
character differences faces
There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face. Carl Barks
character clinton
Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics. Carl Bernstein
character simple profound
A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed. Carl Friedrich Gauss
character eye vegetables
Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables. C. S. Lewis
character play plot
But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
reader second
The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel. Kathryn Stockett
reader though
I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late. Nick Harkaway
readers
The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.
readers reluctant
There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh. Barbara Park
readers
I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb. Amy Bloom
readers
The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest. Dionne Bromfield
readers time
'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.
reader
You've got to be a good date for the reader. Kurt Vonnegut
reader war
When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side. P. J. O'Rourke