Socrates Quotes
You will know that the divine is so great and of such a nature that it sees and hears everything at once, is present everywhere, and is concerned with everything.
Quotes to Explore
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
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People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.
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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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There are many guys out there who look like me - you know, brunettes with long hair. There are thousands. But I think the difference is that I am a real polo player, who does endorsements for Ralph Lauren on the side, and I've always looked at it that way.
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Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
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My father will never say no to a character, as I never go to him and talk about a character for which he won't give the nod.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
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When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.
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Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/ His dark materials to create more worlds,--/ Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross.
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You will know that the divine is so great and of such a nature that it sees and hears everything at once, is present everywhere, and is concerned with everything.
