Jay Parini Quotes

Fundamentalism takes different forms in different religions, but there is one striking similarity in all forms of fundamentalist thought. Each wishes dearly to hold in check all varieties of 'modern' or 'decadent' thinking.

Jay Parini

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 2, 1948

Topics

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I have always followed a healthy protein and lower-carb lifestyle.

Jessie James Decker

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When I was in college, every summer I would work for free at a theater.

Jennifer Garner

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When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.

Robert Higgs

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Letting a project sit and coming back to it is just as important as working on it all the time. You need to come back to it with fresh eyes.

Jeff Lemire

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I've gained a seriousness that has to do with a certain perspective, a gratitude for being able to see the importance of things. And that lends itself a gravity to everything. And that is something that I sort of carry as a weight but a good weight inside of me.

Amanda Knox

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One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

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It is important that we work toward a better future. You can make a difference. Don't listen to people who say you are unqualified, you can start a change and see it through.

Liz Parrish

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I do try to do high-impact work, and I try to think of ideas people haven't thought about that have broad implications, but I don't restrict myself to that. I try to work on things that I find interesting.

Lisa Randall

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For me, the things like the Confederate flag - I just don't think that it does anybody much good, and it certainly causes a lot of people a lot of pain.

Jason Isbell

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It's not clear in physics why you can't see the future.

Brian Josephson

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I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand.

Arthur Hertzberg

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You have a physical human reaction to something that another human being made. When you remove the human from it, and you chop it up, make it all perfect, you have a different reaction. Something is not there. You can feel it when it's there.

Alison Mosshart

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