Nancy Milford Quotes
To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.
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My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.
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Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.
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I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up the search after it; and let me take courage, and try from the bottom of my heart to do that which I believe truth dictates, if it lead me to be a Quaker or not.
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I'm not the guy whose gonna shoot 10,000 free-throws until I'm Michael Jordan - and it did happen kind of accidentally that I said, "Okay, yeah, I'll try singing."
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
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The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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A woman's thought runs before her actions.
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Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.
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I don't think I'm that much different from any other working actor that's trying to make a living.
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Your path lies across the stars.
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What is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. Only through mourning everything we have lost can we discover that we have in fact survived; that our spirits are indestructible.
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There are good options, easy to set up and cheap to maintain.
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Divine life is basically the inner freedom to choose the right and the good spontaneously.
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For we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges, that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.
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My wife is my ultimate sexual fantasy. But there was this cute sheep back in Arclove ...
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Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
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Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.
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I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.
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To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.
