Carolyn Forche Quotes
A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.
Carolyn Forche
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The bigger you become of a celebrity, the bigger the expectations, the pressure on you - to make change, to say what people want, to target the people they want to target. Fame is toxic; it is quite toxic.
Bassem Youssef
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Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another.
Camille Paglia
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When a Jew visits Jerusalem for the first time, it is not the first time; it is a homecoming.
Elie Wiesel
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The Marianne Vos Route goes through the seven villages of Aalburg, where I grew up, and celebrates my World and Olympic titles with a number of benches along the route, where you can stop and rest your legs. You'll see the white windmill in Meeuwen and, in Babylonienbroek, a statue of the silver bike I rode to celebrate my Olympic track win.
Marianne Vos
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One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
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I think I could drink my own blood. Is that weird?
Jessica Biel
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I believe that when you're wrong, own it and apologize, and so I do and put it on the equivalent of my front page.
Peter Coyote
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War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of violence.
Betty Williams
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Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels because I can't do plots.'' But in the six years of writing that novel, I actually learned to write, to invent things.
Hilary Mantel
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If you’re not pissing someone off, you probably aren’t doing anything important.
Oliver Emberton
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There is no room for dictating taste in the diverse and dynamic world of media. To limit taste only limits the role we play for people of all kinds.
Lachlan Murdoch
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A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.
Carolyn Forche
