"There are a lot of books about the……" — Nelson DeMille
"There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve."
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38 Quotes by Nelson DeMille
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If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the…
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Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.
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I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday,
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I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when…
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I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.
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Absolutely breathtaking, nail-biting, and edge-of-your-seat. Michael Koryta is a master at maintaining suspense and a hell of a good writer.…
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We're all pilgrims on the same journey but some pilgrims have better road maps.
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It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up.
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Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum.
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How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.
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I don't like mysteries, which is why I want to solve them. It bothers me that there are things I…
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Chemical and biological attacks are scary and will kill a lot of people but dont rise to the level of…
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More Aristocracy Quotes
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one of 225 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
— Charles Baudelaire
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There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
— Josh Billings
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
— Samuel Butler
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But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe…
— Benjamin Carson
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world,…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. .…
— James Bryant Conant
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