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One Quotes by Anne Tyler
- But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the…
- I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving…
- I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may…
- The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday…
- I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.
- My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
- I write because I want to have more than one life.
- When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.
- I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about…
- I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
- One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never…
- I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
- I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It’s greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the…
- People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day…
- There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you…
- No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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