Stewart O'Nan Quotes
The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.
Stewart O'Nan
Quotes to Explore
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
Eduardo Chillida
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
Nadia Comaneci
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
Brown Campbell
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
Samuel Johnson
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
Ian Anderson
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I'm about 5' 10", and my hair is the length of my whole body now. We grow our hair because of faith, but it's getting heavy. Most of the rastas I know with hair my length are elders, and they keep it tied up, but for a young person who's active and running around, the weight is a big thing. So to play sports, I put it in a backpack.
Damian Marley
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The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
Flannery O'Connor
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Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.
Lady Gregory
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My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.
Wayne Wonder
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The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.
Felix Frankfurter
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One of my clearest impressions about India as a child was that my parents' stories would have been impossible had they stayed. Of course, such a vision was self-serving, for it made a virtue of our displacement.
Anand Giridharadas
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People don't think I can construct a sentence, let alone write a script.
Freddie Prinze, Jr.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
Sam Harris
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How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed.
Naveen Jain
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I'm not 18 anymore, so I'm not into starting unnecessary beefs. It's tacky.
Marina Ann Hantzis
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The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails.
H. L. Mencken
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The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.
Stewart O'Nan
