William Appleman Williams Quotes
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I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.
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I know every line to 'The Little Rascals.'
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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
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Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.
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Great things are possible only to strong souls and it's from the trivial events of daily life that strength is won.
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In the winter, I'm always in Europe. July and September are New Zealand and Chile camps. I'm always on the road.
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Even the poor should give something to charity.
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Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.
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In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.
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Brian and I will vote for some kind of smoking ordinance while Jack is against it.
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The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.
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The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it.
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Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
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He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.
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Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
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Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character has to be cleared in our own minds. Faith in its actual working out has to go through spells of unsyllabled isolation. Never confound the trial of faith with the ordinary discipline of life. Much that we call the trial of faith is the inevitable result of being alive.
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My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.
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Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.
