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Plato Quotes

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: greek
Birth: 427 BC - 347 BC

Topics

First Protector Root Tyrant He

I've had a wonderful life. The reason it's been a wonderful life is I've made conscious choices to get up, to basically love life.

Life Love Choices Love Life Reason

It's fun to dress up and look good. And it's fun to try on clothes and wear a different jacket every night. It also helps you on stage to feel like you belong there.

Good Fun Dress Night Clothes Look

For me, writing post-apocalyptic novels isn't so much about exploding helicopters and fifty-megaton doomsday bombs as it is about the pleasure of dealing with the best of everything that makes us human: cleverness, grit, loyalty, and self-sacrifice.

Loyalty Best Me Writing Grit Human

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Life Courage Proportion Shrinks

You want a political culture that works to create conditions under which an economy can thrive? Since signing the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, Israel has spent two decades working to unshackle its economy from its socialist roots, with remarkable results.

Culture Roots Political Thrive You

I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later, you decide whether it'll ever see the light of day. But at the moment of its writing, it's always meant to be something. So, to me, there's no practicing; there's only editing and publishing or not publishing.

Light Moment Day Me Writing Think

No matter how long I go without riding winners, I know in the back of my head that I can ride.

Ride Long Back I Can Go Know

The most satisfying accomplishment for me was winning the British Open in 1996. But the most rewarding times were the times on the mini tours.

Me Winning Accomplishment Open Mini

I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating characters in a novel is like shooting at clay pigeons and missing, and then missing more productively as the narrative continues.

Change Grow Understanding Creating

I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world.

Thankful People World Fortunate Most

Books and marriage go ill together.

Marriage Together Go Books Ill

A good novel is an out-of-self experience. It lifts you off the ground so that you have the sensation of flying. It says, 'Look at the world around you; learn from the people in these pages, neither quite me nor quite you, how life is lived in so many different ways.'

Life Good Experience People World

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