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Only Quotes by Tana French
- Don't get discouraged if you're hammering away at a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter, and it keeps coming out wrong. You're allowed to…
- If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.
- Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands…
- I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded,…
- I can't explain the alchemy that transmuted one evening into the equivalent of years held lightly in common. The only way I can put it…
- Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it.
- Most people are only too delighted to wreck each other's heads. And for the tiny minority who do their pathetic best not to, this world…
- Now that's a concept that's always fascinated me: the real world. Only a very specific subset of people use the term, have you noticed? To…
- Only teenagers think boring is bad. Adults, grown men and women who've been around the block a few times, know that boring is a gift…
- I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. My gift, or fatal flaw, is for nostalgia. I have sometimes been accused…
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- Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle