Evan Esar Quotes
Statistics Fiction in its most uninteresting form.
Evan Esar
Quotes to Explore
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
Karen Thompson Walker
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My stage name is actually my nickname given to me by my dad when I was a baby.
OMI
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I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.
Uzo Aduba
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Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.
Lajos Kossuth
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It's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. That's not normal. If anything, it's the actor accidentally punching the stunt double, which happens quite a bit.
Katee Sackhoff
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
A. S. Byatt
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Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.
Ramana Maharshi
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It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.
Nathalie Sarraute
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There are only a few safe targets left, just a few groups of people you can say anything negative about without getting in trouble for it. I've made a list of safe targets and I probably ought to stick to those. Politicians, for instance. You can say anything you want about them, and it doesn't matter how unfair you are. People seem to like it.
Andy Rooney
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I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.
Antonio Damasio
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... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.
Archibald Cox
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Given angel's wings, where might you fly? In what sweet heaven might you find your love? Unwilling to be bound, where might you move, Lost between the wonder and the why?
Nick Gordon
