Patrick deWitt Quotes
I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
Patrick deWitt
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
A. B. Yehoshua
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
Wallace Stevens
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
Pat Paulsen
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
V. S. Naipaul
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
Tavi Gevinson
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
Sam Abell
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Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.
Caitlin Doughty
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My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
Victor Hugo
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
Ted Rall
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
Felix Adler
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
Harold Brodkey
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My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.
Jai Rodriguez
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It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
Socrates
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You know, I'm not sitting here like some little woman standing by my man, like Tammy Wynette. I'm sitting here because I love him, and I respect him, and I honor what he's been through and what we've been through together. And you know, if that's not enough for people, then heck, don't vote for him.
Hillary Clinton
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If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years.
Socrates
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At the mention of the name and offence of this degraded being a great sound went up from the entire multitude - a universal cry of execration, not greatly dissimilar from that which may be frequently heard in the crowded Temple of Impartiality when the one whose duty it is to take up, at a venture, the folded papers, announces that the sublime Emperor, or some mandarin of exalted rank, has been so fortunate as to hold the winning number in the Annual State Lottery.
Ernest Bramah
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
Patrick deWitt
