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Holly Near Quotes

Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: June 6, 1949

Topics

Time Space Thinking Care Take Care

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Good Evil Person More Everything

I'm so much more gratified by my life now that I have an expertise. I wake up every day thinking about a fairly small set of scientific questions all related to the psychology of achievement, and I'll never get bored of those questions. That's something I couldn't say to you when I was 22 or 25 or probably even 31.

Angela Duckworth

Life Day Achievement Small Wake Up

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.

Walk Think Dark Person Always

I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families.

Goals Happiness Opportunity Health

Once in a while there was some TV offer and I'd take it.

Take Offer Some TV Once While

The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.

World Human Being Human Rights Being

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

Flying Desert Fighter Pilot Egypt

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

Surprise Run Structure Through Up

In the end, my story, in Iraq and afterward, is about more than just killing people or even fighting for my country. It's about being a man. And it's about love as well as hate.

Love Hate Man People Story End

Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity.

World Free Gift You Know Abundance

You hear these yummy mummies talk about being the best possible mother, and they put all their effort into their children. I also want to be the best possible mother, but I know that my job as a mother includes bringing my children up so, actually, they can live without me.

Mother Live Children Best Job Me

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn't done in life. They wish they hadn't kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

Life Dog Wish Done Things Something

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