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Denis Diderot Quotes

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: editor
Nationality: french
Birth: October 5, 1713 - July 31, 1784

Topics

Eyes Man Old Man Back Old Adult

I try to think of the social function of fiction as drawing the individual toward larger social and political questions. But I'm also very comfortable in saying that my novel - any novel - doesn't matter as much as larger questions of how we can see justice done.

Justice Saying Think Political Done

The LGBT Community was mostly responsible for birthing my career, and I am deeply indebted to you... You have loved me faithfully and unconditionally, and for so many years you provided me with work even though my star had long since faded.

Jennifer Holliday

Work Community I Am Me Loved You

I lose my wallet all the time, and I break my phone all the time.

Anderson Cooper

Time Lose Phone Wallet Break

I got the first thing I auditioned for - a guest role on two episodes on 'All Saints,' and I don't think I had ever been that excited.

Think First Two Guest Excited Role

It's still fun to come to games, and it's still fun to be in the Seattle crowd.

Fun Games Seattle Crowd Come Still

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Business Money Poor Talk Write Us

I used to get so jealous if my wife liked another band more than my own. Come to think of it, I still do.

Wife Jealous Think My Own More Band

The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.

Science Experience Queen Long Goal

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

Louis D. Brandeis

Man Government People Law Become

I first wrote for adults, but when I started writing for young people, it was the most creative and liberating experience of my life. I was able to express my own deepest feelings far more than I ever could when writing for adults.

Lloyd Alexander

Life Experience Creative People

Black people lived right by the railroad tracks, and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy, and I thought: I'm gonna make a song that sounds like that.

People Night Song Black Thought Boy

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.

Sea Decision Law You Sex Understand

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