Jay McInerney Quotes
A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.
Jay McInerney
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
Ma Jun
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Ever since it was announced that Ryan Murphy intended to produce 'The People v. O.J. Simpson,' I have been inundated with the question as to 'How do I feel about it?' All I can say is, for me, it was personally the most heartbreaking tragedy that altered my life forever.
Faye Resnick
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
Laura Linney
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
Gail Collins
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
Halldor Laxness
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In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school.
Gaylord Nelson
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To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.
Naguib Mahfouz
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The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
E. B. White
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I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.
Octavia E. Butler
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A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.
Jay McInerney
