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In politics, reality and appearance are of equal importance. You cannot attend to one and neglect the other. A man must determine…
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When I was a boy, my grandfather taught me the list of kings: Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius, Ancus Marcius, Tarquinius the…
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There is a fine sense of freedom that comes from wandering about a familiar city with no particular destination in mind, with…
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Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.
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We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into…
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Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a…
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Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject,…
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Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big…
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Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us deep into…
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Not write what you know, but know what you write. If you write about a world before, after, or other than this…
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I can't say I had an ideal father, and I'm not a father myself.
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All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?
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We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for…
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
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Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book…
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When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we…
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We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which…
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The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
— Charles P. Kindleberger
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I was named Margaret Yvonne. Margaret because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was…
— Yvonne De Carlo
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I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is…
— Tom Selleck
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Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.
— Calista Flockhart
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No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error.
— Unknown Author
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I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all worked together. I could tell it was…
— Kid Koala
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But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to…
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