Marguerite Young Quotes
I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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I'm flying all around the world, and it's hard to be settled.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
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A will finds a way.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.
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The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.
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A people must have dignity and identity.
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World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation. (p.66)
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Whether addressing immediate crises or building long-term foundations of peace, the United Nations will remain committed to solutions that advance the global good.
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I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.
