Geoff Dyer Quotes
You read 'Stalingrad' by Antony Beevor because you're interested in the Second World War or Russia or whatever.
Geoff Dyer
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
Bebe Rexha
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
Tammy Duckworth
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Abraham Lincoln
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
H. G. Bissinger
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
P. J. O'Rourke
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
Mackenzie Rosman
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The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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A lot of my shows in the past have been more theatrical than others, but you really get the bug for it when you direct on stage.
Ben Affleck
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The odyssey is not going out and seeing the world: it's about trying to get home. It's home to the woman you love.
Pete Hamill
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Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.
Marianne Williamson
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A lot of the drawbacks, a lot of the difficulties that Uber has had, have been completely predictable, and they handled them poorly, so by their own standards they made a lot of mistakes, and I think that they would admit that.
Brad Stone
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You read 'Stalingrad' by Antony Beevor because you're interested in the Second World War or Russia or whatever.
Geoff Dyer