Edmund Morris Quotes
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According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
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The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.
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Eleven years is a great length of time to prepare a movie, it would be wonderful to have 11 years of funded preparation.
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The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.
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I’m mistaken….for thinking you were someone with a heart worth breaking.
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You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.
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It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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Illiteracy does not impede the practice of democracy, as witnessed by the success of democracy in India despite the high illiteracy rate. One doesn't need a university diploma to realize that the ruler is oppressive and corrupt. On the other hand, to eradicate illiteracy requires that we elect a fair and efficient political regime.
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My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands.
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An author needs to be in the market. He or she needs to come out with a new book every year. That keeps you alive in the public mind and gives a push to your older books.
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That's probably a problem for some people in this business, they don't like to listen.
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I was a huge O. J. Simpson fan.
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Students of color who attended integrated schools in the decades immediately following Brown were more likely to graduate high school, go to college, earn higher wages, live healthier lifestyles, and not have a criminal record than their peers in segregated schools.
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Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don't think God categorizes sins.
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Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
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What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.
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An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.
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Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?
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I write with my past, about the future, for the present.
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Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.
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All things come to him who hustles while he waits.
