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- A French traveler with a sore throat is a wonderful thing to behold, but it takes more than tonsillitis to prevent a Frenchman from boasting.
- The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.
- ... Oceanic malaise. I never saw anyone reading anything more demanding than a comic book. I never heard any youth express an interest in science…
- Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this is because painting…
- There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't…
- I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great…
- Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits…
- Connection" is the triumphal cry these days. Connection has made people arrogant, impatient, hasty, and presumptuous. ...I don't doubt that instant communication has been good…
- Writing was in my mind from the time I was in high school, but more, the idea that I would be a doctor. I really…
- Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter.
- I think I am typical in believing that the Peace Corps trained us brilliantly and then did little more except send us into the bush.…
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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