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Lynn Coady Quotes

It's a moral absolute: If you are going to make a human being, you have a fundamental responsibility to that person - to honestly disclose exactly who they are and where they come from.

Lynn Coady

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: January 24, 1970

Topics

Responsibility You Person Moral Come

I think we need to not speak over black women, not assign them labels.

Jessica Williams

Women Speak Black Think Need Over

Compared with my brother, I always felt like Richard III, some clever humpbacked thing who surpassed him in the end. He was the one who read books, but I became the writer. He painted and drew, but I was the one who got accepted by the High School of Music and Art.

Jerome Charyn

Music Art School Brother High School

The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.

John Mortimer

Yourself Writing Rule Only Validity

Christianity is not about the divine becoming human so much as it is about the human becoming divine. That is a paradigm shift of the first order.

John Shelby Spong

Human First Paradigm Order Divine

It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.

Roger Goodell

Success Sports Professional NFL Been

I definitely need a girl that has a good sense of humor because there are some girls that are just very uptight.

Romeo Santos

Good Girl Humor Sense Of Humor Need

I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.

Michael Nesmith

Music Ideas Feel I Can Go Never

In high school, we would do improv. Me and my boy were, like, the stars of the class.

Demetrius Shipp, Jr.

Stars School Me High School Class

I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.

Dean Koontz

Flying Find Blood Scary Just

Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

Aubrey de Grey

Fire Environment Desire Wheel Fix

Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.

William Floyd

Fear Fate Friends Island Destruction

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

William Hazlitt

Friendship Love Myself Hate Fool