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Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you…
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I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels…
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I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa,…
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It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic…
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Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.
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Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.
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Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.
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High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted'…
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I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for…
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My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.
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A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul…
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A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as…
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Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not…
— P T Barnum
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To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment;…
— Benjamin Haydon
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I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got…
— Ken Loach
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Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us…
— Jenny Shipley
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I've learned how to be open and bold about my faith, but in terms of my influence, I just try to lead…
— Jeremy Lin
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I find myself in a new and strange position here: President, cabinet, Gen. Scott, and all deferring to me. By some strange…
— George B. McClellan
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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
— Seneca the Younger
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First-generation children were strongly influenced by their immigrant parents approach to choice. For them, choice was not just a way of defining…
— Sheena Iyengar
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The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we…
— Shakti Gawain
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And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions…
— Bernard Cornwell
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The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all…
— Lauryn Hill
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