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George Packer Quotes

I am not a pure fiction writer, nor am I an academic writer. Somehow I ended up in this blended area of literary journalism.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 13, 1960

Topics

I Am Journalism Pure Up Fiction Nor

The truth about love is that you don't always fall in love with whom you are supposed to fall in love with. Love just hits you. It is a transcendent thing. Sometimes it is your best friend's husband and sometimes it's your father. It's weird. But that's a fact of life.

Life Love Friend Father Truth Best

But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

Fiction Nonfiction Read Stuff Lot

There are more important ways of earning a living, aren't there? Like being a neurosurgeon. But some plays are very important, aren't they?

Important Living More Earning Being

Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along.

Enough House Go Boy Passionate Out

When Dad died in 1998, it really hit my confidence - he'd helped me write and he thought I was really funny, but since he'd died I didn't feel right. And it felt like no one but me even remembered him.

Funny Confidence Me Thought Feel

If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.

Vision Money You Will Opponent Out

I'm definitely more of a makeup person than a skincare person. I'd love someone to teach me exactly what to do with my skin, but then again, I am also lazy.

Chiara Ferragni

Love I Am Me Makeup Someone Skin

Most Republicans and the business community extol the virtues of trade, depicting it as an engine of economic progress, while most Democrats and unions attack the exportation of American jobs, claiming that trade agreements are destroying our economy.

William M. Daley

Business Community Progress American

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

Thorstein Veblen

Gentleman Leisure Valuable Means

The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear plants in the days after the Three Mile Island disaster; if we had reacted to Watergate by making Richard Nixon a national hero.

Hero Plants New Three Island Right

I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.

Work Fear Live Control Dark Fired

Whenever I'm doing anything romantic with an actor, or if there's a director around, I never want anybody's wife to feel threatened by me.

Romantic Wife Me Feel Doing Want

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