Ernest Hemingway Quotes
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I have a great office.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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A hard man is good to find.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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From my apartment in Arlington, I could see Washington. It was always nice to be near home.
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If a portion of a redwood is rotting, the redwood will send roots into its own form and draw nutrients out of itself as it falls apart. If we had redwood-like biology, if we got a touch of gangrene in our arm, then we could just, you know, extract the nutrients and the moisture out of it until it fell off.
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I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.
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The life my grandparents had was thoroughly American. They built a small ranch into a huge operation and fulfilled my great-grandparents' dreams. Theirs was... a simpler time of contentment and patriotism.
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I'll be dead by the time I'm forty.
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You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that.
