Alexander Chee Quotes
Historical fiction was not - and is not - meant to supplant literature from the period it describes. As a veteran of the Crimea, Tolstoy wrote 'War and Peace' to match his own internal sense of the truth of the Napoleonic wars, to dramatize what he felt literature from that period had failed to describe.
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Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.
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The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
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I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.
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It's important I surround myself with people who make me happy.
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They are beautiful monsters... And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.
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Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.
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ritual lulls our fear of disorder with the certainty of order.
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Historical fiction was not - and is not - meant to supplant literature from the period it describes. As a veteran of the Crimea, Tolstoy wrote 'War and Peace' to match his own internal sense of the truth of the Napoleonic wars, to dramatize what he felt literature from that period had failed to describe.
