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- I wish I could go back and rewrite my first book, You Bright and Risen Angels; I could do a better job. But in the…
- So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that…
- At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a lot of ignorance…
- When I go train hopping and I look up into the sky, there are always so many more stars than I remember there were.
- My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some…
- As large publishers turn into monopolies, and the MBAs who are running them - maybe editors used to run them before - are steadily tightening…
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- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- 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