Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
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With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
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When I go out and I'm presenting the best side of myself, I want to look different from everyone, but I don't want it to look like I'm wearing a costume.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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I am a Bolshevik.
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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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The first dress that I wore in the Spice Girls, which everybody thought was a little black Gucci dress, was actually from Miss Selfridge - it wasn't a little black Gucci dress.
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A thought once awakened does not again slumber.
