V. S. Pritchett Quotes
It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.
V. S. Pritchett
Quotes to Explore
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
Mallory Jansen
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I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.
Rachel Dratch
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The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
Dalai Lama
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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
Oscar Wilde
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In high school, I was doing my magazine 'Rookie' and a lot of writing, and I became a little less interested in the fashion world. I was approached by an agent for writing, and I said I wanted to act as well. They sent me scripts, and then I got my first Broadway play, 'This Is Our Youth'.
Tavi Gevinson
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I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
Samantha Power
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When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
M. Ward
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For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.
J. Courtney Sullivan
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Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.
Karen DeCrow
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The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down.
Salman Rushdie
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Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Carl Sagan
