To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate. - Mary McCarthy

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George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer. . . I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.

Mary McCarthy

To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate.

Disesteemed, Fate, People, Worst

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The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has all too much a professional air.

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Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

Science, Men, Discovery, Small, Earth, Discoveries

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished.

Incessant, Labor, Behinds, Leaves, Finished

Like Michelangelo and Cellini, Florentines of every station are absorbed in acquiring real estate: a little apartment that can be rented to foreigners; a farm that will supply the owner with oil, wine, fruit, and flowers for the house.

Acquiring, Cellini, Flower, Real, Supply, Wine

All ideas advanced to deal with the Florentine noise problem, the Florentine traffic problem, are Utopian, and nobody believes in them, just as nobody believed in Machiavelli's Prince, a Utopian image of the ideally self-interested despot.

Believe, Self, Ideas, Nobody, Prince

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A man without trust is a man without life.

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I think that people all grow up and have their same personalities, but you can say, "Oh, I can see the roots of this personality, which I didn't like, but then you grew up, and I can still see you as that person, but I do really like you now. " Which is sort of how I feel about children - I mean, about children who I knew when I was a child and grew up with, and they're still my friends, and children that I know as children who I see growing up, and every year I like them more.

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Michael Stipe

There is always something of the writer in the work but I don't think Melville had to be swallowed by a whale to write a great novel. If I had lived the lives of all the characters of the songs I've written, that would truly be an extraordinary story.

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Gage Munroe

I think especially boys have a competitive streak when they're 12.

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Haruki Murakami

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