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 realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of having fans that one day might criticize or abandon you, your fans aren't even fans. They're people with tastes similar to yours. They're friends you haven't met yet.
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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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It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.
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You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.
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The reason why China forecasting has such a poor track record is that Westerners constantly invoke the model and experience of the West to explain China, and it is a false prophet. Until we start trying to understand China on its own terms, rather than as a Western-style nation in the making, we will continue to get it wrong.
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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.
