Alan Patrick Herbert Quotes
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
Alan Patrick Herbert
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
Tao Lin
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If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
S. Truett Cathy
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
Ed Speleers
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If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.
Octavio Paz
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It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
Wen Jiabao
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First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
Pat Roberts
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Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.
Zadie Smith
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Death is the hardest question, and in an age that gives short shrift to the transmission of wisdom from old to young, it is not surprising that death is the single most obvious fact of life from which we constantly insulate our kids. We have, to our detriment, created a cult of denial about our own mortality. Life needs to be lived and prioritized with the understanding that it is limited.
Benjamin E. Sasse
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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She was the breeze on a summer's day, the first drops of rain when the earth was parched, light from the evening star.
Kate Morton
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If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
Alan Patrick Herbert
