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Quotes by Writer
"To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward."
Eye,
7
"The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued."
7
"No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity."
7
"Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to be doled out by benevolent well-wishers, but as Casement said at his trial, as those rights to which all human beings are entitled from birth. It is this spirit which underlies organizations like Amnesty International, with its belief that putting someone in prison solely for his or her opinion is a crime, whether it happens in China or Turkey or Argentina and Medecins Sans Frontieres, with its belief that a sick child is entitled to medical care, whether in Rwanda or Honduras or the South Bronx."
7
"Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply."
7
"Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know."
7
"We can either own our circumstances and be creative in them, or we can throw up our hands and say, I cannot be held accountable because the conditions are not ideal."
7
"Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore."
7
"We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs."
7
"I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great believer in blood."
7
"Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that."
7
"We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves."
7
"We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do."
7
"That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places."
7
"No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people."
7
"The ironic thing is that marketers have responded to this problem with the single worst cure possible. To deal with the clutter and the diminished effectiveness of Interruption Marketing, they're interrupting us even more!"
7
"Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets."
7
"The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it."
7
"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit."
7
"I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little."
7
"For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of."
7
"In everybody's life there's a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can't go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That's how we survive."
7
"Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues."
7
"I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun."
7
"Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out."
7
"If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls."
7
"Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees."
7
"For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim."
7
"One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word."
7
"Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines."
7
"Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition."
7
"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."
7
"Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world."
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