Charles Eliot Norton Quotes
The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.
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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
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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 force myself to outline, but not too closely, so I guess I plot by the seat of my pants? My natural instinct is to dive right in, but I know I'll get stuck. I like to stick with the architect vs. gardener metaphor. I guess I'm a gardener who plants tomatoes. I have the sticks in the ground and let the vines grow along those parameters.
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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 am especially proud of taking on issues most central to the health of our American democracy.
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I had a husband who, I'm convinced, was an undiagnosed manic depressive. He didn't treat me as if I had a brain - I was just this beautiful little doll he could show off.
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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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I let people draw their own conclusions about my similarities to Dale Sr.
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I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.
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The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
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I'm six-foot-five. I'm not going to win the gold medal in figure skating. But I can try, and that's what matters. Trying.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.
