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Lawrence Wright Quotes

I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system.

Lawrence Wright

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: August 2, 1947

Topics

Work Better Feel Cards Student Note

Christ died for the truth.

Truth Christ Died

I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don't think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok?

Money Think American Winner Paris

I work in a room overlooking the river. I try to get to my desk as soon as I've fed my cats and chickens. I use a blue 3B pencil and scribble away for about 20 pages before transferring it to the computer.

Work Cats Blue River Desk Try

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

John F. Kennedy

Life You Say Settle Going Happens

We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It's really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone.

Amanda Seyfried

Alone Time Yourself Feel Lose Check

Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.

Racism Tears You Down Achieve Up

I'm too tall. I am 6ft 7in, so I've been most people's height at some point in my life, and 6ft 4in is the best. You're tall, but you don't have to bend when you go through a door.

Stephen Merchant

Life Best I Am People Door My Life

I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you.

Building Someone You Place Know

I feel very strongly that it is vital for us to constantly keep in mind the fact that the Jewish problem is but a phase of the world problem.

Louis Finkelstein

Mind World Feel Problem Jewish Us

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

Morality Force Discreet Immorality

I used to do some philanthropic work, but with the political platform, I can contribute in a bigger way.

Work Political I Can Way Bigger

Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.

Good Great Sleep Night Short Train

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