Quotes about american-author
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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. Willa Cather
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We don't protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species. Andrew Vachss
american-author speak
The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.
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Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.
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We're kidding on that. One of the things I insisted upon when we went into this project was that we are full partners, going fifty-fifty, both on the money and on the say of what's going on with the books. Robert Asprin
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another. John Burroughs
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This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years old, at the time, and so I actually don't have any memories of this gentleman. Jhumpa Lahiri
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What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. Susan Sontag
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Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again. Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.
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You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country. Sara Paretsky
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I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life.
american-author pick piece public trying wants
I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private. Sandra Cisneros
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The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.
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The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.
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Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.
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All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
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Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy. William Greider
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As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.
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In this country you can say aloud or publish just about anything you like.
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Animal-rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.
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What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. William Blum
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Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step. William Dean Howells
american-author curiosity man
The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.
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I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly. Mary Garden
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Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift. Kate DiCamillo
american-author following
The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House. Laura Hillenbrand
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It takes me forever to say my prayers these days, but I don't care, because this time around, I want to make sure God doesn't have to do any guesswork. Terry McMillan
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When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money. Norman Spinrad
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The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life. Ralph Ellison
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The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going. Phil Crosby
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No one can remember more than three points.
american-author change happen
Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.