Elyn Saks Quotes
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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Trends don't mean very much.
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'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.
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Every time Bush talks about trust it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the truth is a travesty of the American political system.
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I'd love to think that I'm a super human being, but I'm not.
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In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.
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Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.
