E. L. Doctorow Quotes
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody.
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I made my first movie when I was five.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.
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I don't do athletics for any other reason than achieving certain distances, certain titles and goals in my head.
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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
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I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
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I need to be able to explain myself in context.
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
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But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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We do need to have a little bit more protection and sensibility around pensioners. They are remarkable. They gave so much. We need to make sure we do our best by them.
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As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.
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Gentlemen, haven’t we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love.
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Tell everyone you know: "My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook." And then demonstrate it. Be happy, no matter what they're doing. Practice feeling good, no matter what. And before you know it, you will not give anyone else responsibility for the way you feel-and then, you'll love them all. Because the only reason you don't love them, is because you're using them as your excuse to not feel good.
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I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it.
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Dirt rolls from his palm, Blades of grass Tumble from his hair.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
