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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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We women continue to swallow this line that it's unladylike or even proof of being a lesbian if you wear flat shoes…
— Jo Brand
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Gentlemen, as sure as I'm sitting here now, the result of continuation of a non-system, the ostrich-like head-in-the-sand attitude, the constant rejection…
— Dianne Feinstein
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A lot of people in the movie industry tend to run and hide from it like ostriches. Movie industry people are definitely…
— Madeleine Stowe
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We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A ranch hand, equivalent of the old gaucho, rides after an ostrich, swinging three-thonged and weighted baleadoras. Note how only the toe…
— Luis Marden
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Rock star, flier than an ostrich.
— Juelz Santana
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry -…
— Garrett P. Serviss
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I don't want a team that escapes from reality and escapes from the truth. I don't want people who are always escaping,…
— John Chaney
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I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.
— Pierre Salinger
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With the Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, this is the Eisenhower-era revisited. It's ostrich time, where people are looking for comfort…
— David Fricke
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A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.
— Thomas Malthus
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