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Claire Messud Quotes

I grew up on British fiction, and I write perhaps more directly out of that tradition.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1966

Topics

Tradition More Write Out Up Fiction

The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.

Business Community Great Time Tree

I need to hold onto my soul and my integrity, and I can't compromise that.

Integrity Soul Compromise My Soul

The idea of the celebrity politician is nothing new, and depending on one's perspective, either President Obama or Sarah Palin are the country's first celebrity politicians.

Perspective Country New Nothing Idea

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.

Robert Rauschenberg

People Reading Think You Newspaper

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Great Men People Brainy Know Say

We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.

Funny Sad Think Try I Think Both

As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director of the libraries in 2007.

Me American Become President Harvard

I want to be embraced by the audience, but it's fun to stir up the pot.

Fun Want Audience Up Pot Stir

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

Luigi Pirandello

Love Yourself Humanity You Say Well

The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck.

School High School Career Meet High

I love doing roles and movies that are different from each other.

Josh Hutcherson

Love Doing Movies Different Roles

Extremist movements are driven by their inability to tolerate the basic human fact of pluralism. They refuse to accept the natural cultural and religious diversity of our world, seeking to impose their own beliefs and behaviours as a universal pattern for humanity.

Diversity World Humanity Accept Own

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