Michael Dirda Quotes
Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.
Michael Dirda
Quotes to Explore
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You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds immeasurably to life.
Patrick O'Brian
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When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy.
Hari Kunzru
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You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.
Farrah Fawcett
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I did not grow up singing Yiddish.
Mandy Patinkin
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I grew up quick because my family was away a lot, and I took care of my sister. Then in my 20s, I went through my teens, with these 'wild abandon' things.
Carlene Carter
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What you perceive as "liberal" is my independence to choose what i do, with whom, and when. Moreover, it also means that i may choose not to do it, with anyone, ever.
Ana Castillo
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The Bible applied to the heart by the Holy Ghost is the chief means by which men are built up and established in the faith, after their conversion. It is able to cleanse them, to sanctify them, to instruct them in righteousness, and to furnish them thoroughly for all good works.
J. C. Ryle
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If we taught children to speak, they'd never learn.
William Hull
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I've realized that although Valentine's Day can be a cheesy money making stint to most people, it's a day of expressing love across the world. It doesn't have to only be between lovers, but by telling a friend that you care, or even an old person that they are still appreciated.
Reeva Steenkamp
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The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going.
Elia Kazan
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whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.
Kay Boyle
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Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.
Michael Dirda
