Red Smith (Walter Wellesley Smith) Quotes
Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
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I didn't even start college until I was 21.
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I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.
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Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.
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Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
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The Congress has tasked the Federal Reserve with achieving stable prices and maximum employment - the dual mandate.
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I'm used to pressure. When writing must get done, I work in bed, on a bus, a train.
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Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
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Data and data sets are not objective; they are creations of human design. We give numbers their voice, draw inferences from them, and define their meaning through our interpretations.
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If you see what is small as it sees itself, and accept what is weak for what strength it has, and use what is dim for the light it gives then all will go well. This is called Acting Naturally.
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I really am pretty happy with what God gave me.
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Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.
