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Eric Hoffer Quotes

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 25, 1898 - May 21, 1983

Topics

Seed Peaceful Nation Without Things

Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.

Life Marketing Crisis Young More

When we're young we have a very clear vision of how life is supposed to be, and it all seems very neatly packaged.

Life Vision Young Seems Clear How

My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.

Life Mind Me Sister Writing Short

When I can afford it, I'm very into organic food and I love going to restaurants that use organic produce and such. I think that it's a shame for everyone that, unfortunately, organic can be pretty expensive, so you just do what you can.

Sprague Grayden

Love Food Think You I Can Shame

I thought it was going to be a hut in Topanga and Janis Joplin was going to come out, but it's a real doctor... I went to Beverly Hills to meet this midwife; you'd think they'd be in nature.

Nature Doctor Think Thought You Out

But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for.

Robert Falcon Scott

Country Depend See Us Give Been

When I was growing up, kids would go outside and play all day and invent things. And my brothers and I pretended our picnic table was a ship one summer. Our bikes were horses, and our trees were forts. We turned everything in the world into make-believe.

Mary Pope Osborne

Day Growing Up World Trees Ship

It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.

Hope Myself Find Possible Always

My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.

Douglas Trumbull

Change Light Color Design Aesthetic

When I first started writing 'Still Missing,' I didn't actually realize I was writing a thriller. I thought it was more women's fiction, but during the many years of rewrites, I kept taking out the boring parts, and then my agent informed me that I had written a thriller.

Women Me Writing Thought Boring Out

Every single person on the planet has equal humanity.

Clemantine Wamariya

Humanity Person Equal Single Planet

I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.

Myself Believe View I Believe Writer

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