Bel Kaufman Quotes
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To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
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Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.
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You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.
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Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.
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I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.
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There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just 'works.' I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.
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'One should always be skeptical. That’s always been our problem. We have too many believers.''Believers in what?''In everything.'
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Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat the enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed: War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.
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Being nice always comes back to repay us in the long run.
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Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.
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'All right,' said Rowlandson. He began shakily to count out notes. Near-broken, he was still an Englishman; he would not bargain.
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A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage-market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.
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In a way, no one's harder on the poor than the poor themselves.
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It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to.
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Playing on Saturdays, seeing 75,000 people yell your name, 88, ASJ, and all of that stuff is great.
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Big movies are fun and it`s great to fly on private jets and make a lot of money and all the things that are connected with Hollywood, but they take a lot of your own life.
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My God is none other than the people. Only the popular masses are omniscient and omnipotent and almighty on earth. Therefore my lifetime motto is: 'The people are my God.'
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Awkward conversations are painful, but they're way easier than divorce, resentment, and heartbreak.
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Men make history. History does not make the man.
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As for Walter—he was a man constantly beset by tiny pinpricks of fate.
