David Ebershoff Quotes
History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up.
David Ebershoff
Quotes to Explore
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
Irwin Shaw
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
J. Paul Getty
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
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I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously.
Kate Christensen
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In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
Francesca Annis
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
Joanne Rowling
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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
Patrick White
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The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.
Carl Sagan
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You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it.
Rafael Palmeiro
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Practice quality, and you get better at quality. But quality takes time, so by working solely on quality, you end up losing something else that's important - speed.
Jason Fried
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Tears are summer showers to the soul.
Alfred Austin
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History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up.
David Ebershoff