Brander Matthews Quotes
To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.
Brander Matthews
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I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.
Kate Christensen
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I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.
Lapo Elkann
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It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.
Nathan Hale
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Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.
Fiona Shaw
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The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.
Brown Campbell
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Bermuda is not even tropical. The charm of the tropics - the heat, the chaos - is not there.
Padgett Powell
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I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.
Taiye Selasi
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To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.
Tavis Smiley
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May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
Saint Ignatius
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In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.
Nancy Willard
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The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.
Oriana Fallaci
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Anais Nin shows an occasional grace in writing, but her work is quite foreign to me, precisely because she wants so much to be feminine and not feminist. And then she is so gaga before so many men. She talks about men I know in France, men who were less than nothing, and she considers them kings, extraordinary people.
Simone de Beauvoir
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When people first started watching UFC, it seemed like a no-holds barred event... early on it looked like all the fighters were crazy. Actually, there are a lot of techniques, and the reality shows have let people see the fighters behind the scenes.
Randy Couture
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Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
William Penn
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Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief.
Richard Widmark
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To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.
Brander Matthews
