William Dalrymple Quotes
Mr William, he said, in my life six times have I crashed, and on not one occasion have I ever been killed.( Bevinda Singh taxi driver from City of Djinns
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Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.
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No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.
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When I'm not on tour, I love to have a long breakfast at home in my garden.
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No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.
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I believe the President was enormously effective in small groups, small groups being anything under a hundred, where you could really communicate.
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Making ski racing fun and engaging for kids and families is an exciting opportunity and a real passion of mine.
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He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.
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The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.
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There can never be enough writers anywhere in the world.
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Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.
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The greatest encouragement is conveyed in prayer.
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My real hair color is kind of a dark blonde. Now I just have mood hair.
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If Manliness had a soundtrack, the score would be metal.
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The law is like rope...useful, necessary, strong, but it can be bent and twisted into all kinds of shapes depending on the occasion.
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I’m always intrigued by my nonsensical concern with picking out a bunch of things that look exactly alike the ones that somehow I feel are the best and belong to me. It’s that same crazy urge or superstition, or whatever it is, that makes me open a Bible in a hotel room, hoping for some great happenstance spiritual word of advice. More often than not, I hit a long passage of begats and begots, which contain little inspiration other than the fact that procreation is the highest aim of life.
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Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.
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I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.
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The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.
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There is a certain logic to events that pushes you along a certain path. You go along the path that feels the most true, and most according to the principles that are guiding you, and that's the way the decisions are made.
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Mr William, he said, in my life six times have I crashed, and on not one occasion have I ever been killed.( Bevinda Singh taxi driver from City of Djinns
