Colm Toibin Quotes
Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.
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Yeah, I have animosity, a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
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We've always believed in our music.
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Through endless time God's greatest gift is continuously given in silence. But whenmankind becomes completely deaf to the thunder of His Silence God incarnates as Man.
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Open eyes are of little use when the mind behind them is closed.
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A new poll reveals that 56% of Americans believe that Wal-Mart is bad for the country, while the other 44% work there.
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Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a leafy soil, not a mere mineral mass: and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.
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Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.
