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Betsy Lerner has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where…
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I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where…
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When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions,…
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But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.
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No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing…
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But I also believe there is enormous value in the piece of writing that goes no further than the one person for…
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The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of…
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In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people…
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Indeed, the great paradox of the writer's life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people.
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The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach…
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Tomorrow, I am fifty-two years old. And I want to say unequivocally that I am very happy to be alive, that being…
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Asking for advice about what you should write is a little like asking for help getting dressed. I can you tell you…
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Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's…
— J. William Fulbright
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Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away…
— Charles W. Chesnutt
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In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people…
— Betsy Lerner
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The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we…
— Ernest Becker
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The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.
— Charles Mengel Allen
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A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.
— Isaac Asimov
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We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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