"Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything."

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"Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything."

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"Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot."

Dan Brown, American Author

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"The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest."

John Buchanan Robinson, American Politician

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"The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest."

Herbert Croly, American Author

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"The problem with interest rates are that you are not modeling a single number, you are modeling a whole term structure, so it is a sort of different type of problem."

John Hull, American Economist

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"My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout."

Jackson Pollock, American Artist

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"In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone."

Alexis Korner, English Musician

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"There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions."

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"When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing."

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"To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement."

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"The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality."

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"It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein."

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"The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side."

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