Quotes 81 till 94 of 94.
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.
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Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
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To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
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Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.
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We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.
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We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
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What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another.
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When I was bullied: you manned-up. You learned something. You realized: I'm not getting the gold star. You realized: you lose. Deal with it.
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Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.
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Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.
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Writing fiction is an act of imagination and fantasizing, and it's not relating in prose what you've been doing for the last two or three years.
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You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you.
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You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
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You learn to move on without the people you love.
Source: Lunar Park (2010) 185
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