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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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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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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I am strictly against remaking a movie.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
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Online is such a brilliant, brilliant way to connect with young readers - even if they just want to tweet, 'Hey, I read your book!' - that, absolutely, I connect with that. But I also treat writing as solitary and keep it to myself as long as I can.
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In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.
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I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.
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You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.
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I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.
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A thought once awakened does not again slumber.
