Antonio Munoz Molina Quotes
A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.
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It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
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Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.
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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
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Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
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I'm a homebody for sure. I do a lot of work at home.
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Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
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They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.
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In 1982, Algeria made their first appearance at the World Cup. I believe it was the first Arab country to do so.
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Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.
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I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.
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Prudence is … more than mere shrewdness. If not tied down to the noble and just ends that one has been habituated to love, the soul's native power of cleverness can lead to the utmost knavery.
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I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
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Il est sage de ne mettre ni crainte, ni espérance dans l’avenir incertain.
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Si no has de cambiar de ruta, ¿por qué has de cambiar de guía?
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No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.
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Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.
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Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored.
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There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past.
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Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his own protection, safety and security, just as a child depends on its parent. For self-preservation man has conceived the idea of an immortal Soul or Atman, which will live eternally. In his ignorance, weakness, fear, and desire, man needs these two things to console himself. Hence he clings to them deeply and fanatically.
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As long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and join the YMCA and are accepted as gentlemen, it will be impossible to think of the South as civilized...The educated folk of the Old South took theology lightly, and religion to them was hardly more than a charming ritual, useful on solemn occassions.
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Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.
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We want a fireworks theory of evolution. The last two thousand million years are slow evolution: they are the smoke and ashes of bright but very rapid fireworks.
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A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.
