Ann Beattie Quotes
Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.
Ann Beattie
Quotes to Explore
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It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.
Padgett Powell
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.
F. Murray Abraham
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Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.
Gary Player
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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
Victor Kiam
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I think, anyone in the arts, you're self-employed; it's so difficult.
Sam Heughan
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I know many sports fans that don't enjoy soccer. The argument is that there's no action, not enough of it.
Rabih Alameddine
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Mr. Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay with him.
Daisy Ashford
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
Larry Wall
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It is generally argued that our experience of free will presents a compelling mystery: On the one hand, we can't make sense of it in scientific terms; on the other, we feel that we are the authors of our own thoughts and actions.
Sam Harris
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I dream of you too, Mariam jo. I miss you. I miss the sound of your voice, your laughter. I miss reading to you, and all the times we fished together. Do you remember all the times we fished together? You were a good daughter, Mariam jo, and I cannot ever think of you without feeling shame and regret. -Jalil's letter
Khaled Hosseini
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The smallest bacterium is so much more like people than Stanley Miller’s mixtures of chemicals, because it already has these system properties. So to go from a bacterium to people is less of a step than to go from a mixture of amino acids to that bacterium.
Lynn Margulis
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Every man can break, after certain time period. It's only necessary to find the levers that move his soul
Conn Iggulden
