Nancy Milford Quotes
In reality, there is no materialist like the artist, asking back from life the double and the wastage and the cost on what he puts out in emotional usury.
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
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The other girls in the village never felt restless. Nhamo was like a pot of boiling water. 'I want...I want...,' she whispered to herself, but she didn't know what she wanted and she had no idea how to find it.
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Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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Width of life is more important than length of life.
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I was not even looking, but my Caddy pinged me with twenty-nine points of convergence
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Social Media are tools, Real Time is a mindset.
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I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone.
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Being lost is the way, how else can you be found?
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When you live in Beijing for a while, you gain a finely tuned understanding of air.
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I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and positively deny that he is my brother, or any kin to me whatever.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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I'm a strict materialist - but the police are brutal materialists.
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By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.
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If I make a double bogey, the fans on whatever hole better watch out; I might throw it. I might throw it at them.
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Everything had to work perfectly on that double play, and it did. It was an unbelievable ending.
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If we are perceived by the rest of the world as employing a double standard in the way that we pursue the war on terror, if we are seen as imposing on other countries' nationals, burdens that we wouldn't be able to tolerate ourselves, then we sacrifice the legitimacy of the enterprise. And I don't think the world considers it illegitimate for the United States to seek to protect itself from another attack like the one we suffered on 9/11, but I think the world does think it is illegitimate to do so by sacrificing their citizens' rights and not our citizens' rights.
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I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.
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In reality, there is no materialist like the artist, asking back from life the double and the wastage and the cost on what he puts out in emotional usury.
