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- Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.
- You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.
- All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time…
- Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that…
- I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking…
- I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I…
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your…
- There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up…
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for fuel but also…
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- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
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