Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
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Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
Vikram Seth
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
Tabitha Soren
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The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.
Edmund Morgan
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I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.
Mandy Patinkin
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I'm always gonna have the darker edgy music; it is always in my pocket because it comes so naturally to me.
Yelawolf
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I gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I'm a winner. And if they don't, I'll open a bookstore.
Warren Spector
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Still, still with Thee, when purple morning breaketh,When the bird waketh, and the shadows flee;Fairer than morning, lovelier than the daylight,Dawns the sweet consciousness, - I am with Thee.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The Devil is a woman.
Camille Paglia
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Good doctors exercise judgment. They make the call and - right or wrong - live with the consequences and learn from them. The redefined M.D. is flawed, but comfortable inside their own skin.
Brian Goldman
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If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.
David Ricardo
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Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'
Mary Gaitskill
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If I want to wear a long flowing dress, someone will say I'm pregnant.
Khloe Kardashian
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At 17, I went away to Pau in the south of France for a few months to study domestic science - including cleaning windows with newspaper and water - while living with a Catholic family with 10 children.
Mary Berry
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I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly.
Jonathan Franzen
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Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.
John Milton
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I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit back and watch and learn.
James Badge Dale
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Procrastinate now, don't put it off.
Ellen DeGeneres
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Fuck me. We're living in Isengard.
Ben Aaronovitch
