Morris West Quotes
And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
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When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
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When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.
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Common sense to one person might be something different to another.
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I wanted to create things that you can always pull out of your closet and rely on. I wanted to create a timeless, classic collection of clothing that you can keep expanding on.
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You do not defend a world that is already lost.
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What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books.
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We've discussed democracy, we have a clause of democracy, ... We've discussed what's needed to help the 800 million people in the hemisphere. We have discussed the environment, we have discussed education, we have discussed health, and all the leaders were very, very happy with what happened.
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And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.
