Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.
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There is no 'one-size-fits-all' way to build an audience.
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Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all!
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Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
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This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
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I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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There is a movement in club football, which I don't necessarily consider a prime example of solidarity, because it leads us to conclude the rich are getting richer and they are using everything in the market to create an exodus from Africa.
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Communication is the transfer of emotion.
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People like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding - I do not put myself in that category.
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I think we are affected by others in all kinds of ways. I do understand what it's like to wish to control the conditions under which we can be affected by other human beings, but none of us really are.
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The current extinction has its own novel cause: not an asteroid or a massive volcanic eruption but "one weedy species". We're seeing right now that a mass extinction can be caused by human beings.
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Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.
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We’re seeing right now that a mass extinction can be caused by human beings.
