"The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention."

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"The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention."

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"What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful."

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"The constant attention is what is so difficult."

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"The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention."

Mark Edwards, American Celebrity

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"Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory."

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"If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky."

Eberhard Weber, German Musician

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"It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths."

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"He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly."

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"Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look."

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"I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial."

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"My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be."

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"I came from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation."

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"When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle."

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"The theologian is interested specifically in the modern novel because there he sees reflected the man of our time, the unbeliever, who is nevertheless grappling in a desperate and usually honest way with intense problems of the spirit."

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"Hazel Motes sat at a forward angel on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car."

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