Zachary Lazar Quotes
What's invaluable about actually going to the places you want to write about are the random accidental things that happen. Random, accidental detail is the best way to make a setting convincing. You can of course invent your own random details, and sometimes I will also mash up real incidents.
Quotes to Explore
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I watch a lot of home stuff; I like seeing things go from one thing to another and get fixed up.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
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The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.
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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.
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Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.
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What's invaluable about actually going to the places you want to write about are the random accidental things that happen. Random, accidental detail is the best way to make a setting convincing. You can of course invent your own random details, and sometimes I will also mash up real incidents.
