Lydia Millet Quotes
Most of my books have something to do with L.A.
Lydia Millet
Quotes to Explore
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If the world acts together, we can make sure that all of our children enjoy lives of opportunity and dignity.
Barack Obama
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Pleasant, summer, and slow long day; Also pleasant to pass out of chastisement Pleasant, the blossoms on the tops of the pear-trees; Also pleasant, friendship with the Creator.
Taliesin
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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
Igor Stravinsky
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Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh,The sun has left the lea.
Walter Scott
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The fundamental imperative about idolatry was that worship was not to be paid to any created thing such as a messenger, a planet, a star, one of the four elements, or to anything produced from them.
Maimonides
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We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.
James Hillman
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The myth is that IP rights are as important as our rights in castles, cars, and corn oil. IP is supposedly intended to encourage inventors and the investment needed to bring their products to the clinic and marketplace.
John Sulston
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It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances. If we get caught, we will be punished. But that doesn't make us good people; it only makes us subdued. Just think about the Congress and Senate and even the president. The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all the power. Everybody is watching everybody else. It is as if the founding fathers knew, intrinsically, that the soul of man, unwatched, is perverse.
Donald Miller
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
Walter Kirn
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Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.
Jeffrey Eugenides
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Most of my books have something to do with L.A.
Lydia Millet