Mark Kurlansky Quotes

A water route to Chinese trade replacing the long, arduous Silk Road was a great dream of the Renaissance.

Mark Kurlansky

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I've gradually grown more comfortable with who I am and what I am.

Jimmy Nail

I AmComfortableMoreWhoGradually

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

WarPeopleIdeasGetWho

This whole wrestling world is a different breed, there's no doubt.

Roman Reigns

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Stories are the rich, unseen underlayer of the most ordinary moments.

Mary Gaitskill

RichMomentsOrdinaryMostStories

A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.

Joy Williams

ThinkEnoughHumanContactOutUp

The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.

Judith Light

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I was seven years old when 'Creepshow' came out, and I'm guessing I was around 10 when I saw it for the first time on VHS. The opening theme reminds me that there are five stories to be told, all so different, and the process of telling a scary story is a dark, glorious trip.

Josh Malerman

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When Mary arrived, I felt a mixture of emotions, including panic and overwhelming love. I felt a great sense of responsibility, not just towards my child but also towards her father. There have been many influences on my life, but that thing of finally becoming a family person was the greatest.

Diana Quick

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I enjoy fighting. It's one of my favorite things to do in the world, so I'm just enjoying every minute of it.

Donald Cerrone

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People's interest in glamour and clothes and nylon stockings and all those things were, when I was a little boy, the sort of world that I listened to.

Colm Toibin

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We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Winston Churchill

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Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution.

William Hamilton Maxwell

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