David Hare Quotes
Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
David Hare
Quotes to Explore
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
Dan Gilbert
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
Lascelles Abercrombie
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.
Tanith Lee
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.
Dan Brown
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
Sadie Jones
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Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will contemplate a fact he should never permit himself to face: that in all probability books have been written, are being written, will be written, better than anything he has done, is doing, or will do.
Fannie Hurst
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The best thing about the Web is the sound of all the individual voices rising.
Jami Attenberg
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I was brought up in the '80s. I was born in 1975. So by the time I got to 10 and I kind of knew that I probably was going to have to be a grown-up lady at some point, the feminine role models that I had were kind of the cast of "Dynasty" and "Dallas." And I just found that terrifying.
Caitlin Moran
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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.
Chinua Achebe
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Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.
Pierre Boulez
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Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
David Hare
