Chad Harbach Quotes
The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.
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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
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I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free.
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Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.
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The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.
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You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.
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My son is healthy and happy, so that's all that matters to me.
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To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold.
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Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.
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Here at home, we will strengthen our defenses but not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values that we cherish as Americans, because great and proud nations don't hunker down and hide behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
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Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by means of the method of porisms is not so easy, nor is one's ingenuity and power of invention so greatly exercised and refined in this analysis.
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A great country needs more people to serve it. A small country needs more people to serve. So, if both shall get what they need, the great country ought to yield.
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The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.
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Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.
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Cannes is a sort of gladiators’ arena.
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After the first shock of recognition - a sudden sense of "this is what I'm going to write" - the novel starts to breed by itself; the process goes on solely in the mind, not on paper. I feel a kind of gentle development, an uncurling inside, and I know that the details are there already, that in fact I would see them plainly if I looked closer, but I prefer to wait until what is loosely called inspiration has completed the task for me.
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When I look at the way I was able to play in my 17th year, I feel like I earned the right to play in the NFL for another one
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The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.
