William Weaks Morris (Willie Morris) Quotes
The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
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I think there is a real thing going on where writers are feeling more liberated to write with a big canvas because of a demonstrable, continued appetite for long-form storytelling.
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First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.
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The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of that energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you've got to be careful.
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Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I have an obsession with hot sauce. I love Cholula. I put Cholula on everything.
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I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.
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From wine what sudden friendship springs!
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Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
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The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.