A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the … - Joseph Conrad

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Some people make movies and think, "Well, I'll just keep asking for more money if this isn't enough. " And then there are other people, like Clint Eastwood, who always come in under budget.

Joseph Conrad

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

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I don't like work. . . but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

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You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search the darkest corners of your heart, the most remote recesses of your brain, - you must search them for the image, for the glamour, for the right expression. And you must do it sincerely, at any cost: you must do it so that at the end of your day's work you should feel exhausted, emptied of every sensation and every thought, with a blank mind and an aching heart, with the notion that there is nothing, - nothing left in you.

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If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything.

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Kathleen Hanna

I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.

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Judd Apatow

Some people make movies and think, "Well, I'll just keep asking for more money if this isn't enough. " And then there are other people, like Clint Eastwood, who always come in under budget.

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James Howard Kunstler

We might hope that the law as a profession does not vanish, because justice may vanish with it - but we could probably do with far fewer lawyers. Since I think agriculture will come back closer to the center of life, I think there will be many vocational opportunities there - especially with the so-called 'value-added' activities associated with food production. That's a windy way to say more local wine and cheese-makers - and probably fewer giant factories producing cheez doodles and Pepsi Cola.

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Peter Kreeft

Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.

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Cynthia McKinney

It is at this moment, when things appear so bleak that we must redouble our efforts and not give up. We must believe that we can remake the world in a more peaceful reality.

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