Louis Auchincloss Quotes
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
Quotes to Explore
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All religions have been made by men.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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You don't have to be something to do something.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.
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It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
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There's a huge expanse of this continent that so seldom gets photographed.
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I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been successful in implementing prohibition in many states.
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It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!
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I feel like Barack Obama, kind of in a political sense, embodies that same kind of spirit as a Q-Tip or a Santogold or a Common. I feel like there is a synergy going on here in this country and abroad. I feel like the doors are open, and it's time to push them wide open.
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My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.
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This left-wing kind of speech, the Robin Hood thing that Pablo had, of course he was a criminal and a mean person, but it wasn't a false. He wasn't false. I don't know what kind of president he would be, maybe a very bad one, but I am sure he would do things for poor people - popular things that wouldn't solve their lives but would help them.
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A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.
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I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.
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It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.
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Is it named after Michael Jordan?
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The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.
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Now you're gone, and nobody says a word about your troubled and exalted life. Only my voice, like a flute, will mourn at your dumb funeral feast.
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I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.
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Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
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We need to realize that our path to transformation is through our mistakes. We're meant to make mistakes, recognize them, and move on to become unlimited.
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Find a model of great education in history and you will find a great teacher who inspired students to make the hard choice to study. Wherever you find such a teacher, you will also find self-motivated students who study hard. When students study hard, learning occurs.
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A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
