John Barth Quotes
More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.
John Barth
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
Karen Bender
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
Magdalena Neuner
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
W. Somerset Maugham
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
Wangari Maathai
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If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.
Gary Bauer
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
Zadie Smith
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I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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One of the trickiest things about 'Game of Thrones' is just seeding those first couple of episodes with that basic information that people need to know, both about the world and the ground rules of the world, and the relationships between the characters, as far as who means what to whom and why.
D. B. Weiss
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Love is a great emotion, but I believe it's not just about romance; it could be love for nature, people, for relationships.
Rani Mukerji
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My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then - to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.
Ice Cube
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Liberals have been driven to the desperate expedient of attributing . . .social pathology in today's ghettos to 'a legacy of slavery' even though black children grew up with two parents more often under slavery than today.
Thomas Sowell
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
Sam Harris
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Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.
Jane Bryant Quinn
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Madame de Stael
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Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.
Stockwell Day
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More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.
John Barth
