William Godwin Quotes
He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.
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I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.
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The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
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I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.
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Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.
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I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
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Remember the diner in 'Happy Days?' I do want to do a show like that. But an updated version.
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There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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The fresh start is always an illusion but a necessary one.
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We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks.
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The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing.
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I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared.
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He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.
