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american-author good graceful pleased writers-and-writing
The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway. Jack Vance
american-author films services sort stick
Typically in horror films the character just services the plot, and you really are just going from 'point a' to 'point b,' just so that you can end up at 'point c.' They are just sort of stick characters. That's just not interesting to me. Kevin Williamson
american-author certainly changed exterior growing safe
The exterior circumstances have certainly changed for many children. The world is not the safe place it was when I was growing up. Beverly Cleary
american-author empowered men women
Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished. John Gray
american-author creating ethanol five four gasoline might percent within
Within four or five years the US might be getting 10 percent of its gasoline from ethanol - that would be like creating a new Indonesia. Daniel Yergin
american-author fine house planet tolerable
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? Henry David Thoreau
american-author best life love man woman
Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself. Zane Grey
american-author countless wrote
So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.
american-author boy
Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl. Dick Bruna
life motivational inspiration
Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street. Ben Nicholas
life motivational perseverance
You just can't beat the person who never gives up. Babe Ruth
life and-love moments
Live life messy and love every moment of it. Ashley Smith
life hate love-is
If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love. Baruch Spinoza
life dream killers
Isolation is a dream killer. Barbara Sher
life believe forever
I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.
life responsibility bewildered
I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it. Arthur Miller
life lying ridiculous
I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.
life beautiful writing
Everything happens as though I were only one of the particular existences of some great incomprehensible and central being.... Sometimes this great totality of life appears to me so dramatically beautiful that it plunges me into ecstasy. But more often it seems like a monstrous beast that penetrates and surpasses me and which is everywhere, within me and outside me.... And terror grips and envelops me more powerfully from moment to moment.... My only way out is to write, to make others aware of it, so as not to have to feel all of it alone, to get rid of however small a portion of it. Arthur Adamov
virtue foolish theory
Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous. Romain Rolland
virtue circumstances prudence
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. John Milton
virtue nobility
As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them in yourself also. Gary Zukav
virtue ifs wrongdoing
If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue. Euripides
virtue immortality ifs
There is no virtue if there is no immortality. Fyodor Dostoevsky
virtue stills
I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue. George R. R. Martin
virtue whatever-happens happens
for there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens... Jeremy Taylor
virtue virtuous persons
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous. Jawaharlal Nehru
virtue measure-for-measure
As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue. Germaine Greer