Darin Strauss Quotes

One of the disconcerting things about writing for publication is that you're trying to clear your little parcel of land in a field where Taste is king - and, as we all know, there's no accounting for Taste.

Darin Strauss

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 1, 1970

Topics

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You don't take a class; you're thrown into motherhood and learn from experience.

Jennie Finch

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I cannot write if there is a sense of plenitude. I have to hypothesize that there is a loss.

Andre Aciman

LossWriteSenseCannot

The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.

John Lydon

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Congress should just do its job and pass a transportation-infrastructure bill - a regular bill that doesn't borrow money and mortgage my future.

Steve Stivers

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I'm not trying to be someone I'm not.

Donny Robinson

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I think I'd be a good pass-catching fullback.

Chris Borland

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I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

Bob Hope

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I watch movies and sports. I can count on the fingers of my hand the number of times I have watched an hour show. I never watch a half-hour show, and I never watch myself.

William Shatner

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There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again.

Richard Morris

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You cannot negotiate with organizations that are based on an ideology whose core is to destroy the West and America.

Ryan Zinke

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My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

Mark Haddon

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The question of one versus two species of African elephants isn't about settling an arcane DNA argument; it's about life or death for these majestic, extraordinary creatures.

Lydia Millet

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