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- I feel more a part of the wrestling community than I feel I belong to the community of arts and letters. Why? Because wrestling requires…
- I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting…
- More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's…
- If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
- The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.
- She felt detached from her family, and thought it strange how they had lavished so much attention on her, as a child, and then at…
- Owen Meany believed that “coincidence” was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives…
- All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people…
- It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that…
- Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they…
- It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to…
- Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she…
- …there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
- The lie, of course, is more interesting.
- I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first…
- I never wanted my kids to feel I was more interested in anything I was doing than I was in them.
- One of the humbling things about having written more than one novel is the sense that every time you begin, that new empty page does…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle