Naomi Novik Quotes

I do not think you are in any danger of starving," Maximus said. "The surgeon said only two weeks ago that you are too fat." "The devil!" Berkley said indignantly, sitting up; and Maximus snorted in amusement at having provoked him.

Naomi Novik

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• Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.

  

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• A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?

  

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• Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.

  

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• This is hip-hop. If you've got something you want to rap about, just rap about it, man.

  

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• I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

  

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• You can't beat a Diane Von Fostenburg wrap dress; I always tend to go for the wrap dresses with a little more structure. I also love Prada shoes.

  

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• In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

  

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• We can climb mountains with self-love.

  

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• In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.

  

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  • Different
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• We've made two products; one is a 155 mm 52-calibre gun with self-propelling and towing capability. This is a field gun - the mainstay of the Indian army like the Bofors guns. Our gun is similar but of a longer range. That was 39 calibre; this is 52. The calibre denotes the length of the barrel and the range.

  

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• Chinese learning is an internal learning, but Western learning is an external one; Chinese learning is for the cultivation of oneself, just as Western learning is for the handling of worldly affairs.

  

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• The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

  

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• People want to be friends with someone who likes to have a good time.

  

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• Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.

  

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• I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.

  

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• On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying economic value of the unit.

  

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• Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

  

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• Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

  

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• I'm glad to be here in Israel again.

  

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• No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics; it grows less and less so.

  

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• I'm a strange kind of author - I like assignments. I wasn't clever enough to invent an iconic figure like Salander, but she's my kind of girl.

  

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• I do not think you are in any danger of starving," Maximus said. "The surgeon said only two weeks ago that you are too fat." "The devil!" Berkley said indignantly, sitting up; and Maximus snorted in amusement at having provoked him.

  

  Naomi Novik
  • Devil
  • Week
  • Danger