Rick Perlstein Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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They made me see that the world was beautiful if you were beautiful, and that you couldn't get unless you gave. And you had to give without wanting to get.
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... health is the obstacle, which ... must stand in the way of a girl's acquiring the intellectual strength, which ... is so invaluable to a boy.
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I am stable when my private life is a success.
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
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... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.
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If God created a football team, Pastor Hawkins would be the quarterback. When he was on God?s field, he always ran the play the coach told him to. Northwest Arkansas lost a difference-maker when Pastor Hawkins went home. I lost a good friend.
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The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
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There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.
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He knew what it was like to love one who did not--or could not--love you back. But he'd had no choice. None of them did.
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I know you. I know this isn't you. And even if it is, I still love you. As much as I always have. You will always be mine. I will always love you, I promised you that when you left, and it's true now.
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Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell.
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People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.
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Like a blind spinner in the sun, I tread my days: I know that all the threads will run Appointed ways. I know each day will bring its task, And being blind no more I ask.
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As a matter of fact I trade in accordance to my means and always leave myself an ample margin of safety.
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Generally, I do not talk about people - family or friends. This is how I am.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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No historical analogies are exactly precise.
