Judith Martin Quotes

For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.

Judith Martin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 13, 1938

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FoolYouNobodyOldEmailAnything

I'm very aware when I share a stage with other writers that I'm much less driven than they are. I don't wake up in the middle of the night, pregnant with paragraphs. I don't suffer for my text twenty-four hours a day.

Jim Crace

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I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, cliched writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn't have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments.

Jennifer Egan

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If Christians see Mormonism as a dramatic deviation from a millennia-old, biblically-based faith, Jews see Christianity in the same light.

Meir Soloveichik

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I've always liked speed. I own a car that I shouldn't be talking about because I'm an environmentalist, but the 1955 Porsche Spyder 550 RS is the finest sports car ever made.

Robert Redford

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Conservative statesmen from Alexander Hamilton to Ronald Reagan sometimes supported protectionism, and at other times, they leaned toward lowering barriers. But they always understood that trade policy was merely a tool for building a strong and independent country with a prosperous middle class.

Robert Lighthizer

BuildingStrongCountrySometimes

I was born and raised right outside of Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Ann McKee

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My dad was the funniest guy I ever knew.

Russell Peters

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So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.

Miroslav Vitous

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I love the dignity in the name Philadelphia, but at heart, we're Philly.

Lisa Scottoline

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Running was like the friend that never left. It was just always there.

Lolo Jones

FriendNeverAlwaysLeftJustLike

To my younger self, I would say unless you're literally in danger, ask forgiveness instead of asking permission.

Jonathan Van Ness

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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

Desiderius Erasmus

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