Lawrence Clark Powell Quotes
No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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Never say anything in a national campaign that anyone might remember.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars. I am the red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek - And finding only the same old stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.
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Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
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I'm a very laboured writer. I hammer it out sentence by sentence, and it takes a long time. That's what the work is, right? To make the reader think it is not hard to do.
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No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
