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Jean Giraudoux Quotes

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: french
Birth: October 29, 1882 - January 31, 1944

Topics

Women Woman I Am Never Years Fifty

One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or unethical to conduct in real life.

Robert J. Sawyer

Life Science Thought Science Fiction

I outline and outline and outline, and then I'm very specific about the stuff I write. That's my process.

Process Write Stuff Outline Specific

Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?

John Shelton Reed

You Know Why Mean Write Boundaries

What a stupid attitude we have in this country to personal stories.

Attitude Stupid Country Personal

When I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition in a letter to Laura Ingalls Wilder; the die was cast. How could I go back on my word?

Ambition Die Back Go Become Old

Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?

You Why Never Ask Him Tell

I want the ballet world to be given the respect that it deserves and to be seen by more people - for so many to experience the beauty that I've received from the ballet world.

Beauty Respect Experience People

So much magazine writing is playing to an empty room. You work like a plow horse, your words get printed on a half-million or more copies, and then it often just disappears into this national vacuum.

Work Words Writing Horse You More

I didn't want to just watch a woman who was getting it right all the time. We're not perfect.

Time Woman Not Perfect Perfect Want

Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.

Alma Guillermoprieto

People Me Think Language Talking

It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.

William Westmoreland

War Media Television Country First

I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.

Nature Career Become Books Rather

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