Carl von Clausewitz Quotes
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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I seemed to have been born reading.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.
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Not always trainers, but if I don't have to, I don't wear high heels. It's really just if something looks good on me, I'm going to buy it. It can be Zara or Chanel... I'm going to buy it.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see, Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be.
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I think my favorite fact about myself is that I have never been dismayed by a critic's bilge or bile, and have never once in my life asked or thanked a reviewer for a review.
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What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.
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The unraveling that I experienced much earlier in the Vietnam war than many people think, was due to the immediate foxhole experiences. But once I got back home and began to follow the war on TV and in the press I began to see this enormous con game - I can't think of any other word for it - that government and the military was foisting on the American people, especially on the young men of my generation, and even worse, the young men of my generation who weren't particularly economically or intellectually privileged.
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
