Isak Dinesen Quotes
And were my faith so strong that it could move mountains, that is the mountain that I would make come to me.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
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I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.
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When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.
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You do not defend a world that is already lost.
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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
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All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
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I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.
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What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?
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In the prayer of faith there is a divine science; it is a science that everyone who would make his lifework a success must understand.
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By never marrying, I ended up never divorcing, but I also failed to accumulate that brocade of civility and padlock of security - kids you do or don't want, Tiffany silver you never use - that makes life complete.
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It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist.
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And were my faith so strong that it could move mountains, that is the mountain that I would make come to me.
