Nathan Englander Quotes

I don't think it's the writer's job to give answers or to give opinions. In fact, when a writer has answers, I think the work ends up being corrupted. It becomes didactic. What a book does is share a consciousness and invite people to explore the questions as best as you can.

Nathan Englander

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There is no reason why the Louvre should be your favourite gallery just because it has the grandest collections in France, any more than Kew should necessarily be a favourite garden because it has the largest assemblage of plants, or Tesco your chosen shop because it has the widest variety of canned beans.

Jim Crace

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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

Andrew Vachss

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I think the more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

John Cusack

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A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

Andy Grove

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I like to be fragile. I like that. I try to be close to that energy and sensibility.

Romain Duris

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I was born and raised in China, and my parents were missionaries.

Jayne Meadows

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It's always just a great thing to see your kids connecting and you see the different stages.

Christine Taylor

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There's always the joy of the performance and fine-tuning new interpretations. Over the years, we've all grown as musicians, so obviously there is a lot of subtlety that wasn't there in the first place.

Chris Squire

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There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.

Claude Debussy

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If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.

William Greider

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In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.

Phillip E. Johnson

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There's tons of people doing awesome things with comics online - I'm just one dude!

Ryan North

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