Norman Nicholson Quotes
Weeds don't need planting in well-drained soil; they don't ask for fertilizer or bits of rag to scare away the birds. They come without invitation; and they don't take the hint when you want them to go. Weeds are nobody's guests: More like squatters.
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Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
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Being from Israel and a Jew is complex already, but with France, there is a freedom and a mix of culture. I have met musicians from all over the world.
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The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.
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When a scientist says he believes the Bible--that doesnt give me anymore more faith in the Bible that gives me more faith in the scientist.
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When I hear Rand Paul, who is much younger, saying wars are verkakte, I agree with him.
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Enlightenment is the only real antidote to the world's despair.
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Or they'll put posters up saying pizza is the biggest source of tomato sauce in the American diet.
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I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.
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Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.
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See it as it is, not worse than it is just so you have a reason not to try.
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A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far-away places without ever leaving your chair.
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.
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Love is in the giver, not the gift.
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We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.
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Weeds don't need planting in well-drained soil; they don't ask for fertilizer or bits of rag to scare away the birds. They come without invitation; and they don't take the hint when you want them to go. Weeds are nobody's guests: More like squatters.
