William Trevor Quotes
I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
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No dream is ever chased alone.
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Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
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Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
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We're changing the way people are going to look at wrestling, women's wrestling, forever. Forever. And we're at the start of it? That's unbelievable. That's unbelievable! Unbelievable.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.
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Lauryn Hill is quite political and is very bold and isn't afraid of wearing her heart on her sleeve, and same with Bjork, except she is a little bit more kind of fragile.
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Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.
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I'm a pretty normal guy. I'm really good at knowing how a normal guy would react in situations.
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I wanted to go back to writing for myself and my fans. I built my own recording studio, started my own label, and decided to use the Internet to sell my records.
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I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.
