Will Durant Quotes
Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.
Quotes to Explore
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions, and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach. That means new technologies.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Values are more important than money.
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I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.
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There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
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The main cause of Europe's deep fall - the losses of inclusion, job satisfaction and wage growth - is the devastating slowdown of productivity that began in the late 1990s and struck large swaths of the continent. It holds down the growth of wages rates, and it depresses employment.
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I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.
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I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school through four years of college.
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In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.
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Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.
