Chad Harbach Quotes
Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so - fiction has perhaps been more about the differences between the unconstrained world of the imagination and the realities you run into, day-to-day, when you're riding your donkey.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.
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A leader is a dealer in hope.
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Now when we talk of brotherhood of men, we stop there and feel that all other life is there for man to exploit for his own purposes. But Hinduism excludes all exploitation.
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Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.
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Sure, call me any ugly name you choose - The steel of freedom does not stain. From those who live like leeches on the people's lives, We must take back our land again, America!
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We play fair and we play hard. If we win the game we win, if we lose the game, we lose.
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I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.
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I'm not really worried about writer's block.
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For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.
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I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social.
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I know these jokes aren't great, ladies and gentlemen, see this is the problem you run into when you're between impeachments.
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There's different ways to win in this league. It's not always going to be pretty.
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I was kind of broke . 'The Girl on the Train' was a last roll of the dice for me as a fiction writer.
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Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
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I feel like, as musicians, we need to fight the Spotify thing. I feel that in some ways what's happening in the mainstream is the last gasp of the old industry. Once that does finally die, which it will, something else will happen.
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Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.
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The God that Paul invented for himself, a God who 'reduced to absurdity' 'the wisdom of this world' (especially the two great enemies of superstition, philology and medicine), is in truth only an indication of Paul's resolute determination to accomplish that very thing himself: to give one's own will the name of God, Torah - that is essentially Jewish.
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Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so - fiction has perhaps been more about the differences between the unconstrained world of the imagination and the realities you run into, day-to-day, when you're riding your donkey.
