Dale Peck Quotes
I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.
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The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
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Zef is the underbelly of the Afrikaans culture, but it also, like, is Afrikaans culture.
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Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?
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I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's – you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.
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It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.
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I tried my hand at photography and worked with a studio for six months.
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L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only.
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Well if you don’t want me to grow up talkin‘ that way, why do you send me to school?
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The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.
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Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse.
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In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean? And just where does my story begin? I must try and think...
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I don't have the freaking energy to write a memo. I'm out there saving lives.
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I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what I decided I would do is write a novel based on my dissertation research.
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I love dark chocolate. I love it.
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Yeah, I was a delinquent. It was when I was in the ninth grade. I was doing stupid stuff, and the cops came into the class. I was humiliated more than anything.
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The Bible tells us that we're supposed to leave an inheritance for children.
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I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.
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I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.
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Some people think of the '50s as a time of innocence, but they are misremembering it or reinventing it: if you look at the papers of the time, they are filled with dread and anxiety.
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I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.
