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- I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming…
- Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
- The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color.…
- Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more…
- Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
- Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.
- Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction.…
- I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as…
- Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least for the survivor Genna. It is also intended as a comment on…
- Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in…
- I never change, I simply become more myself.
- Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther…
- What you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It's more like a flame. A flame can be…
- Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. In running the mind…
- There is an hour when you realize: here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what…
- Later, her first intense, serious love affair, yes then she'd lost something more tangible, if undefinable: her heart? her independence? her control of, definition of,…
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
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- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- 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