Michelle Huneven Quotes
Its subtlest, most appealing accomplishment may be in how other characters respond to Gregorius' precipitous swerve onto the spiritual path. (...) That said, Night Train to Lisbon is a very long, ambitious book that's feverishly overwritten. (...) Think of W.G. Sebald recast for the mass market: stripped of nuance, cooked at high temperature and pounded home, clause after clause. Some of the clumsiness derives from Barbara Harshav's inelegant translation -- we're often aware of her struggle -- but she can't be blamed for the pervasive bloat.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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I myself am a former commando fighter.
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I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.
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I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
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I don't know anyone who likes the American League games better. Maybe some fans do. But if you're not an actual DH, you probably prefer the National League.
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Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.
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I think William Trevor is as good as it gets. Whenever I want a book to do exactly what it says it will, I read him.
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I think there's an abundance of talent in America and there will never be not a lot of talent out there.
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Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.
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The feature space is a spectacle space. It's about getting people out of their houses to go to theater when we all have a lot of things in our home now that occupy our attention.
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I love comedy, and I think that's sort of what comes naturally to me.
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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Everything you can touch and depend on in our society goes back to science.
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The polished executive is ultimately the happy executive who can walk gracefully through life.
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Its subtlest, most appealing accomplishment may be in how other characters respond to Gregorius' precipitous swerve onto the spiritual path. (...) That said, Night Train to Lisbon is a very long, ambitious book that's feverishly overwritten. (...) Think of W.G. Sebald recast for the mass market: stripped of nuance, cooked at high temperature and pounded home, clause after clause. Some of the clumsiness derives from Barbara Harshav's inelegant translation -- we're often aware of her struggle -- but she can't be blamed for the pervasive bloat.
