Anthony Doerr Quotes
I was reading C.S. Lewis with my mom, and she was pointing out that he was dead, and I'm like, 'What do you mean he's dead?' We were in this world he created, and he was gone from the Earth. Yet in those black marks on a white page, his imagination lived on, his voice lived on. That is so miraculous.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.
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I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.
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I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on.
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Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.
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I was reading C.S. Lewis with my mom, and she was pointing out that he was dead, and I'm like, 'What do you mean he's dead?' We were in this world he created, and he was gone from the Earth. Yet in those black marks on a white page, his imagination lived on, his voice lived on. That is so miraculous.
