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- Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
- Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
- The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal…
- I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
- I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
- I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the…
- She had that thing most people don't have - curiosity. She might not have always got the right answers, but she wanted to ask the…
- The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or anarchic in character,…
- A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster