Jay Parini Quotes

When Gore Vidal was coming up, there were three major channels, and he could count on a big audience when he debated someone like William F. Buckley on TV.

Jay Parini

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

John Buchan

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Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

John Barrymore

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I still catch myself trying to become the object someone imagines me to be, but then there are other times, when I am free, when I am fluent, when I am unimaginable, that I start to feel like somewhere out there is the decolonized love for me, somewhere out there, there is a love that doesn't let any of us be so lonely.

Jenny Zhang

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As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.

John Hales

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Our skin is the largest organ and one of the ways we eliminate waste.

Anna Kaiser

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I have a pretty good idea of what I am not good at and have it front and centre of my consciousness every minute I am doing it.

Meryl Streep

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Oprah has been a true inspiration to me, so I'm truly grateful both to her for taking the time to speak with me, and to the folks at 'DWTS' who set it all up.

Amy Purdy

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Football is about scoring, and if you want to do that, you have to go forward.

Son Heung-min

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If I'm writing a furiously angry scene, I have to consciously snap out of it when I shut down the computer, or I find myself growling at my family.

Ruth Ware

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To affirm that God is God is to want to live in a particular way.

Miroslav Volf

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My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists.

Jordan Peterson

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I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that direction.

Don Mattingly

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