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Michael Korda Quotes

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: October 8, 1933

Topics

Best Writing World Curiosity Motive

We are spending more money on bond holders than we are on our own citizens. It took 204 years to have this happen. The other party will not even allow a recorded vote on this issue so that we can see how people stand on that issue.

Money People Bond Stand Party Vote

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

Truth Heart Lie Repetition Paradox

I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, and I had grown up in Los Angeles and had seen that city slide off into the sea from the city I knew as a little kid. It lost its identity - suddenly there was cement everywhere and the green was gone and the air was bad - and I wanted out.

Sea Identity City Green Strong Bad

Positivity attracts positivity.

Positivity Attracts

I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?

Sparky Anderson

Win Believe Manager Boston Yankees

I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though.

Night Bed Little Check Just Odd

If you seriously aspire to be a manager in the big leagues, there is a baseball 'book' that one must learn. Alongside that book, you must practice Spanish. Of 25 players on each roster, sometimes there are between eight and 15 players who speak Spanish.

Baseball Practice Book Speak Learn

I like the competition that Nextel Cup gives us. The schedule is difficult. But this is something I want to do for sure.

Competition Want Schedule Difficult

Between death and a new birth, we know that our body, down to its smallest particles, is formed out of the cosmos. For we ourselves prepare this physical body, bringing together in it the whole of animal nature; we ourselves build it.

Nature Together Death Animal Body

We know too little about how life began on Earth to lay confident odds. It may have involved a fluke so rare that it happened only once in the entire galaxy. On the other hand, it may have been almost inevitable, given the right environment.

Life Confident Environment Earth

I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and 'Brave New World.'

College Brave World New Classic

But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face lights up my world as no other can - well, this feeling too, when viewed as the mere psychologist has to view it, appears to be simply what all the other friends report about their friends.

Alone World Face View Friends You

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