A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers and tell them what to write as much as they like, but they cannot vanish what has been written in the past, though they try often enough...People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.
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Related Read a lot. But read as a writer, to see how other writers are doing it. And make your knowledge of ... THEODORA GOSS If you look at the body of any writers' work, you can figure out the questions that animate them... ISOBELLE CARMODY You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers alwa... RAY BRADBURY Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ... GERMANY KENT To be able to influence Tanzanian literature and African literature, and sell our books in Tanzania ... ENOCK MAREGESI Reasons... questions... what they have in common? - All get finded in the hard way. DEYTH BANGER Too often people look at the disability only and are quick to diagnose someone or try and figure out... MATT BROOKS You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them. JEFFREY FRY How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Contrary to what you may have heard from Henry Rollins or/and Ian MacKaye and/or anyone else who joi... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN When you love people, you are curious about who they are, what they think, and how they feel. You wa... VIRONIKA TUGALEVA When you love people, you are curious about who they are, what they think, and how they feel. You wa... VIRONIKA TUGALEVA You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers ... RAY BRADBURY The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or ... DENIS WAITLEY Tuscola has a quality program. They will stay with what they have been using the past few years beca... DALE SCHURING Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for w... JIM MORRISON Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they cre... CHELSEA CAIN Some writers are more natural public performers than others; personally I find it quite strange givi... MONICA ALI How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both ... MORRIE SCHWARTZ You know what I'd love to read? A Dialogue between Bron and Shevek and Socrates. Socrates would love... JO WALTON People easily become familiar with what you teach them practically than what you tell them verbally.... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to y... OSCAR WILDE You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written b... CORNELIA FUNKE With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic... DORIS LESSING People are who they are and, try as you might, you cannot make them be what you want them to be. LEILA SALES Pryor is a tremendous talent and Rick has them playing well. I think Jeannette has traditionally bee... HARRY BOWSER Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found r... MARCEL PROUST Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far... MARY KAY ASH I think one of the things the buddies didn't expect was for them (the partners) to do as much as the... MEREDITH BARRETT You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. T... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I think the only way to go is to do what they think is the right thing and explain it as well as the... HENRY KISSINGER If someone wants to lead a double life, they will find a way to do it. And they can promise you thin... STEPHANIE KLEIN You don't really know who you're going to fall in love with at what time in their life. They... KIRSTEN DUNST Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice a... KAREN MILLS Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD My instruction to them is to just go down there and to be focused and be disciplined in the game... ... COURTNEY WALSH Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own c... AYN RAND You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think,... HANYA YANAGIHARA Everyone has in their mind a picture of someone with a disability, and it comes from past experience... JANE COLLINS I am not as difficult to get as people think,for I can be easily gotten if only you can entice the p... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) French women love to shop and prepare food. They love to talk about what they have bought and made. ... MIREILLE GUILIANO It has been so hard. We went as far as we could, playing in front of a Canadian crowd like this, und... KELLY SCOTT Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as... MARY KAY ASH Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overloa... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER GIRL, write YOUR book dammit. Who cares what people think? If writers in the past cared wh... MADELINE SHEEHAN I live my life like anybody else, and people choose to write about mine. And what they write I can... ASHTON KUTCHER Writers sometimes write things for me and I like to see what they write because I want to see what t... ISAIAH MUSTAFA I find it odd- the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get ... C. JOYBELL C. Who cares what THEY think, what do YOU think? You can't control others' perception of you, so just b... DAN O'DONNELL So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY If people want to come past the security gates and see what our world was like down in the hole, thi... GARY MARLON SUSON It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, t... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I like the fact that I'm from the South and that I have this rich history behind me. I come from... KIMBERLY WILLIS HOLT People will think you brilliant only if you tell them what they know. To avoid being tho... LAURA RIDING JACKSON People can only give us what they are capable of at that moment and that may not be enough for you- ... DR.'S RICK AND SUSANN CRAWFORD I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, w... DAVID HOCKNEY There is a silent deference for one another, a distance that is kept, and lines that aren’t crosse... DAN GROAT In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble o... MARGE PIERCY These bits of paper are covered with lies. They poison your minds. And so long as they exist, you ca... OLIVER BOWDEN When people recover from depression via psychotherapy, their attributions about recovery are likely ... IRVING KIRSCH Whenever I write, I write what I find to be the way people are. I never use any symbolism at all, bu... CAROLYN CHUTE We talked to the kids about those three losses and what you can learn from them as far as character ... AL WOLSKI The great thing about it is that you can be part of a team and observe what goes on to learn the tru... JAY JOSEPH We live in the last days, in the cold hearted and self centred world where people like you for what ... EUGINIA HERLIHY Be thankful for what you have and the people who love you. You can never tell when they'll all be ta... SUNIL KHEMANEY You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is ... HILARY MANTEL When you look at a fellow, if you taught yourself to look for it, you can see his song written on hi... AUGUST WILSON The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV progr... MILAN KUNDERA When I played in a band, people just stand there and look at you and criticize what they didn't ... ZEDD The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously con... DENIS WATLEY The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously con... DENIS WATLEY Most people go in bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow, the books sit there, al... CECELIA AHERN You can't tell young people what to do. You can't tell 'em because they'll look at y... RONNIE JAMES DIO You must not hate those who do harmful things. The compassionate thing is to do what you can to stop... DALAI LAMA XIV people judge you from what they hear and what others tell them, they wont take time to learn about y... MARIAM As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vo... KARL ROVE As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vo... KARL ROVE Life has a beauty, a beauty that allows you to believe, to believe not in religion but just as impor... PATRICK RUSSELL MILES You can have anything in the world you want if you’ll just help enough other people get what they ... ZIG ZIGLAR We don't always have an accurate view of our own potential. I think most people who are frighten... SCOTT ADAMS An educator should think of a child as a garderner thinks of a plant, as something to be made to gro... BERTRAND RUSSELL I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like th... GABRIELLE ZEVIN The biggest lie in the world is that when people tell you that what they really want is for you to t... CARL WHITE The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but t... TEJU COLE You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they wa... ZIG ZIGLAR See, I know how they do. White folks like to stay in those books. They carry and they keep and they ... MARGARET WRINKLE Be true to yourself, stay focused and stay you, take advice from other folks, use what you can, but ... MUSIQ SOULCHILD People don't say what they mean very often. You have to read between the lines of their behavior, of... M.C. FRANK And as far as a team liking you, that's just how it is; either they like you or they don't. What you... MARCO COLEMAN Many beneficiaries are asking what they can be doing right now to prepare, ... Make a checklist. Wri... BARBARA GORDON You teach your kids about your beliefs and tell them what you think is right and the conclusions tha... FLEA Imagine you had a friend who was there for you all the time and you were there for them, but they st... CECELIA AHERN About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love yo... RITA MAE BROWN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ... CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS You never forget what you've done in the past, and I don't think I can forget the past two seasons. ... KAZ MATSUI If you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men--you may make ... THOMAS MERTON He called and said all of them had been broken into. He said they were very upset, but then they had... ERIN GROSHEK
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And we turned on the TV to check the weather — and th... DORIS DAY We had a group picture taken with him and he also did some autographs and George signed an 'Ocean's ... DORIS PINTER I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted com... DORIS DAY Where others might have faltered, you rose to the occasion, ... This is not just my opinion, which I... DORIS MEISSNER Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A wom... DORIS DAY She spoke on various sides of the issue, ... She spoke about how deeply she cared for the child, how... DORIS MEISSNER That's a social barrier I don't think we're ready to cross. It's two different worlds. Believe me, I... DORIS ROBERTS The real objective here is to deter that kind of migration, ... The best way to deter is to be ready... DORIS MEISSNER When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is... DORIS ROBERTS If there is a Heaven, I'm sure Rock Hudson is there because he was such a kind person. DORIS DAY You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, b... DORIS ROBERTS I asked a member of the crew if I could have the sheets that Jon and George laid on autographed and ... DORIS PINTER There's no magazine you open, unless its AARP, that shows a woman over the age of 45 in any othe... DORIS ROBERTS The worse thing I could have done is to live with a man and not be married. That was the worse thing... DORIS PAYNE It's not the fun it used to be. I'm sure I won't be there next year. DORIS NORTHAM I told everybody all year long that we've got a good team. To me, they just seem so aggressive. DORIS NORTHAM When I was a kid, you know, you went to church and you went to ball games. And that was your enterta... DORIS NORTHAM It was my firm conviction, then and now, that we did the right thing on April 22, and we are doing i... DORIS MEISSNER That told us we had to be prepared for anything. DORIS MEISSNER found the family functioning very well as a family. DORIS MEISSNER They need more space and they need more privacy. DORIS MEISSNER held in virtual slavery. DORIS MEISSNER The arguments for better immigration enforcement and controls are perfectly legitimate, and obviousl... DORIS MEISSNER have basically used the legal migration system to their advantage. DORIS MEISSNER The longer we do it, the bigger it grows. DORIS MARSHALL Our aids are very committed to serving their customers. Money may be a concern but they continue to ... DORIS MARSHALL Our budget is really tight but we will continue to explore (increasing reimbursement), but I don't k... DORIS MARSHALL I live in a neighborhood, but all the houses are different. There are a lot of different sizes and d... DORIS LEADBETTER I think Great Falls is an anomaly because there are so many different types of houses. It's not like... DORIS LEADBETTER It's released by the pituitary gland, and it's released by both sexes. The hormone helps induce rela... DORIS KILGORE I think a lot of people feel like their lives are out of control, and that they're overloaded. Frequ... DORIS KILGORE