Anita Brookner Quotes

I'm not very popular, because they're bleak and they're mournful and all the rest of it and I get censorious reviews. But I'm only writing fiction. I'm not making munitions, so I think it's acceptable.

Anita Brookner

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I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Jesus Christ

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I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.

Matthew Vaughn

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We are, after all, a nation of laws. And we live in a culture where carrying a form of identification is as normal as keeping your car keys in your pocket. When any of us walk into a grocery store and cashes a check, no one skips a beat when asked to present our driver's license.

Mike Gallagher

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Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully.

Jon Katz

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You don't think anyone who lives an ordinary life has plenty of trouble and torment to write about?

David Shields

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Ultimately, I feel like I'm doing everything right. I'm slowly but surely climbing up the ladder. I'm taking out bigger names with every fight. Not just beating them on a point level - I'm finishing every single one of my opponents.

Brian Ortega

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Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

William Moulton Marston

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Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.

Peter Bichsel

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There's something else that makes a woman interesting, something beyond being young or being old. And I'm going to find out what that something else is before I die, I hope.

Peter Lindbergh

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Ultimately, love conquers all, and gay or straight, don't we all want to believe that? I would that if this was to happen to me, and one of my kids had come and told me he or she was gay, I would say: If that's the only way you can live, then I love you.

Paul Sorvino

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If I can walk, I'll play.

Ricky Williams

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I know many filmmakers, and shooting in IMAX is challenging. Filmmakers love the vividness and power of those big images.

Nina Jacobson

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