"We all spend so much time worrying about……" — David Leavitt
"We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection?"
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11 Quotes by David Leavitt
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Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at…
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I could hear the knock and whistle of the water pipes, the purr of the calico cat. And at that…
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When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.
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Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I…
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It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
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Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.
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In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as…
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Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what…
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I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.
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It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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