Antonio Porchia Quotes
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After school, my sister and I helped our mom in the garden. We grew potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes - not for fun, but to eat.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
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It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.
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I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.
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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
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I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough.
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I think fiction writers should work. If you have a job and are not living off advances or grants, you never have to make concessions in your writing, ever.
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That is one of the reasons why we advocate for good relations between the two countries. Turkey understands the needs of the region.
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Writing obscures language ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.
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The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.
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We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.
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She sounded how you'd expect talking to a tree to sound - bored out of her mind.
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Neoconservatives are the boat people of the McGovern revolution.
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There are some things in this establishment that are fundamental... about which I shall deal plainly with you... the government by a single person and a parliament is a fundamental... and... though I may seem to plead for myself, yet I do not: no, nor can any reasonable man say it... I plead for this nation, and all the honest men therein.
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I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try.
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I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to lose,Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose.Once there was a darkness, deep and endless night;You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light.
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Show business is my life.
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The Voting Rights Act was a seminal victory for our country and a great healing moment. But there are some who want to continue to drive divisions and create phony narratives.
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When I was taking art history I was always angry that we would skip certain chapters because "it wasn't important." Like, "Let's skip over the Japanese. Let's just get to Giotto, because that's where everything begins." It's like, no. Everything is relevant to me.
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People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech. When I started writing, I thought [the language] was telling the story of this country: old people in a young nation, very religious, very conservative, very tight-assed, but also very anarchistic, very open-minded. It's all in the language, and that's one thing that doesn't translate.
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Hablo pensando que no debiera hablar: así hablo.
