Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes
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My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
K. Flay
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
Karan Mahajan
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The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
Ian Mckellen
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.
Hanif Kureishi
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
F. H. Bradley
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Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares.
William Shakespeare
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I'm not a Facebook girl. Even though there is a fake Facebook with my name, it's not me. I'm not on Twitter; it's not me.
Carine Roitfeld
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Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer, who tends to have flights of fancy at times, but nevertheless, my feet are mostly on the ground.
Paul Auster
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
Ha-Joon Chang
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Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.
Carolyn Heilbrun