William Styron Quotes
In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth.
William Styron
Quotes to Explore
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
Octavio Paz
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
Zack Snyder
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Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention.
Larry Norman
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As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.
Karen Finerman
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Politics won't allow for the truth.
P. J. O'Rourke
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We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.
Patrick M. Byrne
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I hate the color red almost as much as i hate blond hair,"he said with an amused tone.
Abbi Glines
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I took an MA course in creative writing a couple of years back, and I was definitely in the bottom of the class.
Allan Guthrie
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I've been in every disco in the world. I saw a picture of my wife Shakira and I dancing in Studio 54; I didn't even know someone had taken that picture.
Michael Caine
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As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the writer is 'hot', an invisible wall seems to fall away, and the writer moves easily and surely from one kind of reality to another... Every writer has experienced at least moments of this strange, magical state. Reading student fiction one can spot at once where the power turns on and where it turns off, where the writer writes from 'inspiration' or deep, flowing vision, and where he had to struggle along on mere intellect.
John Gardner
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No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
Pablo Picasso
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In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth.
William Styron