Antonio Porchia Quotes
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.
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Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.
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When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
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'Just as work is the curse of the drinking classes of this country,' Wilde said laughing, 'so education is the curse of the acting classes.'
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Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard.
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I guess I need a hobby. Currently my primary hobby is complaining.
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People get used to more complex forms of entertainment, and they become bored by simpler forms. Television has become more complex in order to feed our demand.
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You have nothing and you would give me a world. I owe you a world.
