I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“ If "If freckles were lovely, and day was night, And measles were nice and a lie warn't a lie, Life would… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“One of the things about Ike that makes him so indisputably a hero is that he doesn't leave his own contradictions to… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
I am drawn to characters so full of internal contradictions. Idi Amin was one. I loved writing him. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The need to be right can arise from a fear of being disrespected. Or it may come out of the fear of… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them. — John Burdett Copy Share Image
An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
“I have now gone through the examination of the four books ascribed to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; and when it is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Double standards are inspiration to men of letters, but they are apt to be fatal to politicians.” — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions. — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
I'm nothing if not a tangled, colorful ball of contradictions. — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This… — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
I'm definitely interested in exploring human contradictions. Contradictions are what make us human - it's what defines us as human beings. Contradictions… — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not so much an aberration as a step on an evolutionary path, and one that contains within it some of… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
“So the studies don't back me up. There'll always be more studies. We'll change our minds and I'll have been right all… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
When you get up, the night and day is a contradiction. But you get up at 4 A.M. That first blush of… — Shekhar Kapur Copy Share Image
I am failing as a woman. I am failing as a feminist. To freely accept the feminist label would not be fair… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening. — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
I come from a very big family from every economic background. Some of the streets I talk about, I've actually walked on… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
