Ivo Andric Quotes
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I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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I have yet to meet a carnivore who doesn't love a sausage roll.
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
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My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.
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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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Along with opportunities, there also exist many other tricky and complex issues to be managed in India. These include tackling both policy-level challenges and infrastructure challenges.
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It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don't need someone questioning every move that I make, asking me why I don't just relax. When there's no one asking me those types of questions... to me, it's peaceful.
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She waits for me; my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs;I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.
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Our modern religious horizon and our conception of the character of a religious leader and teacher are so different that it is not easy to understand men who saw the province of religion chiefly in the broad reaches of civic affairs and international relations.
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Ignorant power is a bane!
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
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Prevention is better than cure.
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I had fallen in love with photography and was making a living doing photographic features for publications such as 'Picture Post,' 'Paris Match' and 'Life' magazine. But in 1939, I saw a huge headline, which I think was in the 'Sunday Express.' It said, 'Danzig - Danger Point of Europe.' I packed up my Leica, got on a train, and went.
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Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?
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It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
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If we don't be going strong, we're going weak, and we can't afford to go weak. We've got too many problems to do that.
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What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness.
