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E. L. Doctorow Quotes

Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: January 6, 1931 - July 21, 2015

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Dangerous Page Games Newspaper More

I simply want to do what I can to have the best Congress possible representing the American people.

Best People American I Can Possible

Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.

Painting Think Picture Abstract Low

I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people.

John Shelby Spong

Family People Want Traditional Other

I try to fix things between the Asian community and the English community. There are always going to be racial things there, not getting on with each other and stuff. I have tried to break that barrier.

Community Try Fix Racial Asian

I have no first-strike capability. I never choose to go into battle first. But I won't back down.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Battle Choose Back Down Go Never

Living in France while the Falklands War was going on, I felt a profound sense of shame and betrayal, just as I did by the war in Iraq. People have asked why I don't talk about that directly in my plays. Well, politics needs to be articulated in many different ways.

Politics War People Betrayal Living

I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

Education Smart Think You Clever

The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.

Power Democracy Help Addiction Oil

In the five years since the end of the Great Recession, the economy has made considerable progress in recovering from the largest and most sustained loss of employment in the United States since the Great Depression.

Great Depression Progress End Loss

I'm in that lucky percentile where I can worry about how I want to shape my career. That's a wonderful place to be.

Worry Career I Can Place Want Lucky

Conservative ideas don't just sound good. They actually work. That's the secret of our success.

Work Success Good Ideas Conservative

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Art Man Important Pleasure Own Who

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