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Nicole Krauss has 160 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The misery of other people is only an abstraction something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's own experiences.…
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All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.
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Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if…
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The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory - and I am…
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Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather…
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David Grossman may be the most gifted writer I've ever read. [To the End of the Land is] powerful, shattering, and unflinching.…
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If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.
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To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs…
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What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to…
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And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one…
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The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that…
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It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
— Thomas Carlyle
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...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant...
— Alexander Hamilton
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If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may…
— Mildred H. McAfee
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We grow small trying to be great.
— E. Stanley Jones
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Mind is nothing but dreams and dreams - dreams of the past, dreams of the future, dreams of how things should be,…
— Rajneesh
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The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms.…
— John Burroughs
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Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
— Norm MacDonald
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
— Moliere
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Do not let great ambitions overshadow small success.
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry- great. To have hopes, dreams- great.
— Johnny Depp
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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