Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
How many people must have sailed out and vanished on the Pacific before you found Easter Island?
Quotes to Explore
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When I grew up in central London, we had six pavement slabs for a garden.
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I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.
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Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
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I regretted it. But it can’t be avoided. A writer has to use everything he has. If you want to write, you have to be willing to be a son of a bitch sometimes.
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What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.
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Worthiness, in very simple terms, means I have found a way to let the Energy reach me, the Energy that is natural, reach me. Worthiness, or unworthiness, is something that is pronounced upon you by you. You are the only one that can deem yourself worthy or unworthy. You are the only one who can love yourself into a state of allowing, or hate yourself in a state of disallowing. There is not something wrong with you, nor is there something wrong with one who is not loving you. You are all just, in the moment, practicing the art of not allowing, or the art of resisting
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Today I bought two lottery tickets, because I had a feeling that it would be now or never - they were both blanks. So I am not going to be rich after all. Nothing at all to be done about it.
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I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific.
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The sense of urgency has almost completely vanished.
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I wake up and fall in love with you like that day at the bakery.
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The Pacific solution has been an outstanding success.
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I grew up in the Ukraine 'til I was about 7, and then I moved to L.A.
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Evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has in mind. Some of its inventions prove elegant, while in others you can see the seams and dried glue.
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When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story.
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There were over 40,000 pages of FBI documents of which only about half are currently available to scholars and researchers. I think that this 40th anniversary of the assassination is a good opportunity for us to say that now is the time to declassify all FBI material on Malcolm X. There really is a need for us to challenge the US government for its refusal to open up its own archives 40 years after the death of Malcolm.
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There's a thing that just as you go to sleep, if you keep your elbows elevated that you will never go below the dream stage. And I've used that quite a lot and it keeps me dreaming much longer than if I just relaxed.
