Charles Eliot Norton Quotes
The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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I read widely - for news, the arts, science, for entertainment, and the value of being informed - and, as a fiction writer, I can't help transposing what I learn into the scenario for a novel or story.
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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
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The E.U. needs a strategy that marries a shared vision to common action.
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I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
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You're an artist when you're writing, a businessperson the rest of the time.
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Baby why'd you leave me, why'd you have to go; I was counting on forever, now I'll never know.
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Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me.
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I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.
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The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.
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I know myself pretty well, and I know what I'm good at, but I also recognize when others may be better and so support and empower that.
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I always want to live long enough to finish the book I'm working on and see it published. But then I start another book before the previous one is in the stores, so I always have a reason to go on.
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And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene.
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It's really hard to find a love song that is real. That's when you really strike a chord with somebody, when you dig in deep and grab a hold.
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I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.
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People's association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn't have to be.
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A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.
