Hannah Whitall Smith Quotes
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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I love for the crowd to feed off me, and I try to make my teammates feed off me.
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If you can accept losing, you can't win.
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I didn't feel attractive in high school.
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I like Liz Phair, but there were these stupid women reviewers who said she's surpassing the Stones. Dream on.
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But they lived those extraordinary lives that can never be lived again. And in the living of them, they gave me a history that is more profound, more beautiful, more powerful, more passionate, and ultimately more useful, than the best damn history book I ever read.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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Life is a compromise between fate and free will.
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We have failed to bring justice. We cannot build the future on injustice.
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Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.
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'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.
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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
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My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.
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I've worked on enough campaigns to know that the most aggrieved candidate rarely emerges victorious.
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When I was a kid I really liked the guitarist of The Doors Robby Krieger. He plays blues, but he plays a lot of melodic things. He plays scales that are kind of unusual, and some bent notes.
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The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.
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From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.
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God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
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God loves us, and the will of love is always blessing for its loved ones.
