Erma Bombeck Quotes
It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
Quotes to Explore
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.
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We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.
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Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.
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If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.
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People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.
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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
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I'm not, like, an action-hero guy.
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Comics brought me to the dance. It'll always be my first loyalty.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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I'm not knocking private schools, but I owe it to my kids to let them grow up in a place where private school isn't required. They're only in school 6-8 hours a day; they have to live in their neighborhood 24 hours a day. I didn't want them growing up in a place where anybody with the means had abandoned their public schools.
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Writing is writing. It's an abiding, wonderful talent, craft, gift that stays with you your whole life. And you can go in different forms, and you can try them. Look at me: I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it.
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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
