Damon Galgut Quotes
It's been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying.
Damon Galgut
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
Abraham Lincoln
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Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.
Hansika Motwani
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I don't subscribe to the thinking that being typecast is a bad thing.
Katee Sackhoff
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
Barry Eisler
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
Umberto Eco
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
Damon Lindelof
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There are some roles that are a no-brainer. You just have a sure, instinctive 'Yes!'
Janet McTeer
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You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.
Jay Alan Sekulow
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The thing about stereotypes as we all know, there is often truth in them, but it's almost always a partial truth.
Alex Tizon
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.
Karen Armstrong
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It's been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying.
Damon Galgut