"A lot of writing is a form of……" — Jonathan Ames
"A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape."
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41 Quotes by Jonathan Ames
Jonathan Ames has 41 quotes on this site.
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I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on…
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I was aware that I was acting atrociously but I couldn't stop myself. Rarely had I behaved in such a…
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I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.
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I wondered where the person was who had taken my place, who wanted to know what news people had been…
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I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.
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How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning…
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To write about a place, you have to live there.
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I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write.
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As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.
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For me, the past is dead. Can't go back.
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Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because…
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I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.
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More Action Quotes
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
— Hannah Arendt
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
— Aristotle
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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