Gary Saul Morson Quotes
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
Harlan Coben -
I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.
Gardner Dozois -
Police can only act on intelligence.
P. Chidambaram -
Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.
Narendra Modi -
People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
Barry White -
It is a great mitzvah to be happy always.
Nachman of Breslov
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Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.
Frederic Chopin -
When we rely on written records we need to continually ask ourselves what might be missing, what might have been recorded in order to manipulate events and in what direction, and in what ways we are allowing ourselves to assume that objectivity is in any way connected with literacy.
Aurora Levins Morales -
So that was somewhat of a transition coming in, but it's something that has allowed us to grow as a team and an offense.
Brady Quinn -
People tend to think I'm insane, and I'm really tired of it.
Cat Power -
I WOULD LIKE, to begin with, to say that though parents, husbands, children, lovers and friends are all very well, they are not dogs. In my day and turn having been each of the above,—except that instead of husbands I was wives,—I know what I am talking about, and am well acquainted with the ups and downs, the daily ups and downs, the sometimes almost hourly ones in the thin-skinned, which seem inevitably to accompany human loves. Dogs are free from these fluctuations. Once they love, they love steadily, unchangingly, till their last breath. That is how I like to be loved. Therefore I will write of dogs.
Elizabeth von Arnim -
Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.
Ray Stevenson
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We are one of the most tolerant societies in the world, and in order to stay tolerant, my party believes that we should stop being tolerant to the people who are intolerant to us.
Geert Wilders -
Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.
Rich Lowry -
I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
Quentin Blake -
Some archives and record offices are housed in your local museum or library; others have their own stand-alone building. Wherever they are, they are a treasure trove.
Kate Williams -
An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.
Gary Saul Morson