Anthony Doerr Quotes
I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.
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I wanted to retire after I played for the Mets. My family said wait one year, that there was no need to rush it. I gave it a year and now it's time to say goodbye.
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I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.
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My family and I have a little joke that if I'm feeling particularly blue, and nobody cares about me, I should just go to the airport! That is where I am most recognized.
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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No, I am not my mother. I am deeply, endlessly grateful for what she did and who she was, but I am a different kind of person.
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The Romans are very equivocal about this building. They call it the typewriter or the wedding cake... But whatever you think of it - it gives you the most amazing views of Rome. It's like a box at the theatre at which Rome is the play.
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If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
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Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.
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I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.
