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Helen Rowland Quotes

In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1875 - 1950

Topics

Love Heart Man Speed Wrong Place

I try to think of the social function of fiction as drawing the individual toward larger social and political questions. But I'm also very comfortable in saying that my novel - any novel - doesn't matter as much as larger questions of how we can see justice done.

Justice Saying Think Political Done

I hadn't ever worked with an 'editor' until I was 26 - although that could be partly chalked up to the MFA vs. NYC thing, where I came up through institutions that encouraged writers to write privately for a long, long time and not sully themselves with concerns about audience or the business side of writing.

Business Time Writing Long Long Time

Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.

John Desmond Bernal

Time Peace Present Humanity Sex

Over the last decade, at considerable cost to me in money and effort, confronted with ridicule and intimidation, I have brought more than a dozen lawsuits challenging the corruption in the election process in Tennessee.

John Jay Hooker

Money Effort Me Process Corruption

It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Book Go Reaction First Second Guess

My grandfather on my dad's side was the first in our family to settle in the U.K. He came from Pakistan on his own in the '60s and worked in a cotton mill in Bolton, earning enough to bring over the rest of his family. My dad, Shah, was only about eight when he came to this country. Like most immigrants, he has a fierce work ethic.

Work Family Rest Work Ethic Fierce

Two dads have sent me letters that said my books changed their daughters' lives. I send them packages with T-shirts and posters because, come on... that's the coolest.

Me Said Letters Two Because Come

A lot about this industry is about who you know. If you set a really good example for yourself, and someone likes that, then they might recommend you to someone else. It doesn't matter what job you're in, any profession, it's always the same.

Good Job Yourself Someone You Know

I've turned down soap and deodorant commercials - it wasn't my route.

Down Soap Route Commercials Turned

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Strength Winning Hardships You Go

I knew from a very, very early age that I was gay, although in the social environment in Venezuela, you don't ever let that be known.

Age Environment You Early Gay Knew

You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it's really made up of stories. When you sit with an individual that's been here, you can give quantitative data a qualitative overlay.

World Data You Up Atoms Individual

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