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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Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.
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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 was signed at 18 and had to grow up quickly.
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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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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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I can be walking down the street, and someone will stop me and ask me for one of my hugs. They feel like I'm their friend, which I love - though sometimes my kids get a little weirded out by it.
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This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind... let it be something good.
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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.
