Alan Russell Quotes
The richer we are, the longer we live. And the longer we live, the more expensive it is to take care of our diseases as we get older.
Quotes to Explore
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You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
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These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dimension; it's about the lack of any texture.
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Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.
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Many Indians and Israelis seem set to elect, with untroubled consciences, those who speak the language of torturers and terrorists. More disturbingly, these corrupted democracies may increasingly prove the norm rather than the exception.
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The Deep South might be wretched, but it can howl.
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Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now.
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Our financial system is so complicated and so interactive - so many different markets in different countries and so many sets of rules.
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The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day.
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It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.
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Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.
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Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.
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Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.
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I was interested in cross-pollinating the two. I thought there was something lovely in the little vignette forms. I wanted to explore that.
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The most depressing part of the 2016 election is that the candidates often failed to show any cultural leadership: any recognition that the world of public policy was important but hardly the only good and necessary part of our shared society.
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Maybe the restaurants could change the rules to allow smoking only at night when it becomes more of a bar setting.
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The richer we are, the longer we live. And the longer we live, the more expensive it is to take care of our diseases as we get older.
