Juan Goytisolo Quotes
When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.Juan Goytisolo
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I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!
Nathan Myhrvold -
I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
Edmund White -
In the past, I used to tell everyone that I have never had a boyfriend, because I was still quite young. However, I cannot say the same thing now.
Park Shin-hye -
I think self-love isn't some destination you get to and you are then incapable of feeling those feelings, but a journey in which you adapt your experiences to make for a happier life.
Paloma Elsesser -
Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre. I don't have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he's a great fighter.
Nate Diaz
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What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.
F. Sionil Jose -
The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
Sally Mann -
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
H. L. Mencken -
I felt that if I'm serious about acting, I would like people to see me as an actress. It's less of a stretch if I'm singing, unless I'm playing a character who sings.
Natalie Cole -
Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.
Barton Gellman -
Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
Mason Cooley
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Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.
Claire Tomalin -
The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.
Maureen O'Hara -
I hate art auctions.
Jerry Saltz -
I've learned how to make a nice souffle, a little mac and cheese.
Kevin Dillon -
Routinely, when I finish a book, I think 'What will I do? Where will I get an idea?' And a kind of low-level panic sets in.
Philip Roth -
Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go.
Andrew Pyper
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In that portion of time where my parents were together, I got to see great love, great loyalty, and teamwork.
Kimberly Guilfoyle -
I've loved musicals ever since I saw 'The Lion King' on Broadway.
Mark Indelicato -
Culture is an abstraction; it cannot actually be seen or touched.... We see people acting in agreed-upon ways in the face of similar situations...we notice people moving their bodies in certain ways – making choices in their lives about where to live, what to eat, how to learn, how to work and love – in response to similar events and experiences, and say: "oh, these people belong to the same culture".
H. Ned Seelye -
Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.
Willa Cather -
It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me.
Kim Elizabeth -
When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.
Juan Goytisolo