Phillips Brooks Quotes
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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Chris Messina is amazing, and he's so serious - he's, like, a proper actor! He's got craft! I love to watch him. But not in a creepy way.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.
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The Chinese model calls for giving your kids very little choice - and I've come to see that you can go too far with that. On the other hand, I also believe that Western parents sometimes give their young kids too much choice.
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What happens when we're willing to feel bad is that, sure enough, we often feel bad - but without the stress of futile avoidance. Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests, and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes parts of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined.
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Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
