Daniel Mason Quotes
White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.
Daniel Mason
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I chase after inspiring stories.
Vera Farmiga
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I love black lingerie and white shoes, and I love knives.
Carine Roitfeld
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As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.
Tatum O'Neal
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I don't eat white breads, and I'm off dairy due to an allergic reaction and because of what it does to the body. I've learnt a lot about different foods and how the body breaks it down and what happens when we eliminate or incorporate certain foods, and it's pretty fascinating!
Nargis Fakhri
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We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.
Nas
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For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.
Samantha Power
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The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.
Flannery O'Connor
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... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and constitution, who alone have the opportunity to bring it good government and prosperity, become a mere sham, then clearly it is completely ruined.
Plato
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The man who has nothing more than a kind of Sunday religion -- whose Christianity is like his Sunday clothes put on once a week, and then laid aside -- such a man cannot, of course, be expected to care about growth in grace.
J. C. Ryle
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There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. This is what the West has done with its colonial system. It shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.
Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
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We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.
Daniel Mason
