Nathan Englander Quotes
Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.
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When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.
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I love to perform live.
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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I love Shirley Maclaine. Love that woman.
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Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.
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Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.
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People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.
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The city and the crowd unidealise love; and love, in the young warm heart of a girl, should be a dream apart from all commoner emotions - as sweet and as ethereal as the blush with which it is born and dies. Beauty gives its own gracefulness to love - there must be romance blended with the passion inspired by the very lovely face which the mirror reflected.
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we made love on the living room floorwith the noise in the background of a televised warand in that defeaning pleasure i thought i heard someone sayif we walk away they'll walk away
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I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
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Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.
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It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same time, and I'm playing, sometimes doing smaller projects.[The opera] Akhnaten fits in with Gandhi and Einstein, so that forms a trilogy in a way.I picked people who were these kind of larger than life characters, who kind of changed the world they lived in by almost the force of their personality and their inventiveness. People that I think not only do I admire but I think they're admirable people.
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Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.
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I don't want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it's going to be like to have kids and you're like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.' And then you have kids, and in an instant nothing in the world matters except for this stranger, because this person comes into the world and in an instant all your focus and priorities becomes these kids.
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Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.
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Empathy is what obsesses me. And watching empathy recede in the world is terrifying.
