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Havelock Ellis Quotes

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: british
Birth: February 2, 1859 - July 8, 1939

Topics

War Better Achieve Nothing Without

Tackling the environment should not be a licence to lecture people, because they have no excuse not to exercise, or eat their fruit and vegetables. Nannying - at least among adults - is likely to be counterproductive. Providing information is empowering; lecturing people is not. So, no excuses, no nannying.

People Fruit Excuses Information Eat

David Foster Wallace, in my opinion, is one of the greatest writers we've ever had, certainly in the last twenty years. His obvious dominance of the English language is partnered with honest moments and the most beautifully dark sensibility.

Opinion Language Moments Dark Years

I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian.

Family I Am Rest Passport British

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

Work Time School Writing More Write

Repeats are the worst, and 'Peanuts' was the one that started that. They don't rerun the news, do they? They don't repeat any other part of the paper. Why do they do it in the comics?

News Why Worst Repeat Paper Started

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

Shirley Hazzard

Love Tragedy Last Lasts

I learned how to write TV by writing 'Grey's Anatomy.'

Writing Grey Write Anatomy TV How

The baseball fights, you don't ever see the squaring off like you do in hockey, and in some instances, that's where baseball fights can be potentially more dangerous because you've got guys running all over the place and people throwing punches at you that you don't even see half the time.

Time Baseball People Hockey You See

I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important - like a league game or something.

Game Hurt You Know Important Out

There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.

Life People Language Quiet Living

I don't keep a journal.

'Waiting For Guffman' was different right away from 'Spinal Tap,' because we didn't show the interviewer. That person became invisible immediately. That created a different way of tuning it and ultimately editing it.

Christopher Guest

Waiting Person Editing Way Right

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