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Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man.

Charles Dudley Warner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 12, 1829 - October 20, 1900

Topics

Love Hate Woman Man Upset More

I don't think there have been many alien movies where the actors have actually seen the aliens.

Think Alien Movies Seen Where Been

I don't want to detach. I don't want to go live in a gated community.

Live Community Go Want Detach

The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'

Heart Imagination Creative Writing

The first time I ever met Stephen King, he came up to me, and we went to shake hands, and he had, like, this fake rubber rat that he kind of, you know, shook at me. You know, and I said, 'No, this is a cliche - this can't be. Stephen King is trying to scare me with a fake rat?' It was just really weird.

Time King Me Fake Weird Hands

I love to teach; that's paramount.

Love Teach I Love Paramount

I believe if a sentence is to retain its strength over time, it needs to be carefully made.

Romesh Gunesekera

Strength Time Believe I Believe Over

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

Ideas Thoughts World Reason Us Get

I take a lot of pride in managing to be funny without having a victim at the end of my joke. I laugh at a really dark joke as much as the next person, but my jokes, I feel, don't have to hurt anybody to be really funny.

Funny Hurt Pride End Feel Laugh

Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the fact that humans share ancestry with apes are a few examples. Another is climate change.

Michael Specter

Change Pain People Skin Will Share

I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town.

Childhood City Early Born Outside

I'm the most private person.

Person Private Person Most Private

In a strange way, you have to have a certain amount of distance from a thing in order to be able to write about it.

You Distance Strange Way Write Able

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