Wendell Berry Quotes
Do not think me gentle because I speak in praise of gentleness, or elegant because I honor the grace that keeps this world. I am a man crude as any, gross of speech, intolerant, stubborn, angry, full of fits and furies. That I may have spoken well at times, is not natural. A wonder is what it is.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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Trump's campaign slogan resonates strongly with a large population of Americans. 'Make America Great Again' portrays a nostalgia for what America once was, and a longing desire to return to that time. Millennials unfortunately don't know first-hand that time which Trump is talking about.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
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I kind of crave loneliness.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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Time stays, we go.
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I don't go to any sexy places to eat where they give you half a lamb chop and one bean. I like going, 'Uhhh, I'm done' when I eat.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.
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Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
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I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
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I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend
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It's sad when a woman writing fantasy in the United States in the 1970s has less actual feminist cred than Sir Walter Scott.
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Don't let the world around you defeat the belief within you.
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I used to be very figurative and also just kind of scared to talk about the way I felt in a literal way.
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Do not think me gentle because I speak in praise of gentleness, or elegant because I honor the grace that keeps this world. I am a man crude as any, gross of speech, intolerant, stubborn, angry, full of fits and furies. That I may have spoken well at times, is not natural. A wonder is what it is.
