Enrique Vila-Matas Quotes

As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I am subdued by an anxiety that knows no irony, and I must wait until the next day to rediscover the blend of anguish and humor that characterizes my writing and that generates my style.

Enrique Vila-Matas

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If investors avoid the Treasury market, we could be unable to pay off maturing securities, which would mean an immediate default. Market participants generally agree that even a brief default would create potentially catastrophic risks to the financial system, like the meltdown of 2008.

Jerome Powell

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Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.

Andrea Bocelli

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Getting anything off the ground is going to require a little bit of risk. That risk starts with sharing the idea.

Max Carver

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You figure that time could heal all wounds, but some people just really hold a crazy grudge.

Steven Adler

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My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman.

Tracy Morgan

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I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.

Tom Stoppard

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When I started playing the game of baseball, the more I played and the better numbers I got, the more I started thinking about the Hall of Fame. But I never thought I had a chance to be there.

Roberto Alomar

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Most important, in portraying gay people... it's just like portraying anybody else.

Luke Macfarlane

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And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.

Judy Woodruff

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Research we've done seems to indicate that people who are on the Net like the idea that they don't have to leave what they are reading to go buy something.

Jay Chiat

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Honestly, I am a fan of the game like anyone else, so my favorite players' list is pretty big. But if we are to narrow it down to England, I have a lot of respect for Wayne Rooney and the things he has achieved for club and country.

David Villa

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One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

Alfred Kazin

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