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Amelia Barr Quotes

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 29, 1831 - March 10, 1919

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Love Power World Strings Poet He

I'm obsessed with the Victorian novel. I can't help it. I feel like the novel then was so powerful and agile in ways I'm not sure it is now.

Feel Help Powerful Now Sure Like

Dickens's final book, 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood,' forms the jumping-off point for my new novel, 'The Last Dickens'. This last work by Dickens has very little social commentary and a pretty tightly efficient storyline and cast of characters. Not necessarily what we think of when we think what characterizes Dickens.

Work Book Think Mystery New Little

Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.

Bread Playing Show Like Butter

Government is dysfunctional.

Michael Bloomberg

Government Dysfunctional

I love... cheesecake in New York. I love whatever is sweet.

Love New York Sweet New Whatever

I am very much a person who appreciates perennial things. Things like a Lacoste shirt, a Clarks desert boot, Persol sunglasses and Vans shoes that have been the same forever. There are certain things that once you find it, you like it and it's done. I like Italian clothing, like suits from Battistoni and I have a shirt by Piero Albertelli.

Shoes I Am Desert Sunglasses Suits

Being a 'monopoly' is not illegal, nor is trying to best one's competitors through lower prices, better customer service, greater efficiency, or more rapid innovation.

Innovation Service Best Better More

Though I didn't quite plan it that way, I had my two sons at just about the same ages my mother saw me and my sister off to college, and my first novel was published when I was 46. This 'tardiness' isn't something I'm proud of, but I'm happy to be an inspiration to others who arrive at these milestones later than most of us do.

Mother Happy College Me Sister Plan

People should say 'no comment' more often. No comment! I love no comment. Let's have more no comment.

Love People Say More Comment Should

I am nowhere near my limit. I just want to see if there are such things as limits. I want to go and find out.

I Am Limits Find Go Want Limit

I've always been good at talking about my feelings; that helps with writing songs.

Good Writing Talking Feelings Always

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

Augusten Burroughs

Write Happen Would Knew Once

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