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Personally Quotes (page 175)

Thomas Moore quote: "You discover that when you are doing the right work, you are..."
You discover that when you are doing the right work, you are the right person. Thomas Moore
Ian Mcewan quote: "The novel is too capacious, inclusive, unruly, and personal..."
The novel is too capacious, inclusive, unruly, and personal for perfection. Too long, sometimes too much like life. Ian Mcewan
They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience. Giordano Bruno
Truman Capote quote: "No. Because I'm not a cold plate of m-m-macaroni. I'm a..."
No. Because I'm not a cold plate of m-m-macaroni. I'm a warm-hearted person. It's the basis of my character. Truman Capote
It seems like with you everything leads back to the subject of death."Sure and show me the person's road that does not lead to death. we try to divert our attention, to pretend 'tisn't so, but the very air we breathe is vulture's breath. Please don't be insinuatin' your man is morbid. I dwell on death in order to defeat it. Tom Robbins
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I had to rescue was myself. John Leonard
As one does the return of sun after winter, I stood still and accepted the warm glow of possibility, of feeling right in the company of this small, oddly fierce person, with the inky hair and the lovely, unemphasized body. Jeffrey Eugenides
Do you know what it is to play a part? To split your personality deliberately for twenty-four hours a day? Even when with friends? Even when alone, so that you will never forget inadvertently? To be a dilettante? To be eternally amused? To be of no account? To be so effete and faintly ridiculous that you have convinced all who know you of your own worthlessness? All so that your life may be safe even though it means it has become barely worth living. But even so, once in a while I... Isaac Asimov
Richard Ford quote: "Conversations with adults other than a person's parents had..."
Conversations with adults other than a person's parents had more of an outcome. Richard Ford
The whole point about vision is that it's very individual, it's very personal, and it has to be confessional. It has to be something which hurts - the pulling out of it and putting it on the page hurts. Art can be about the individual writer's response to his or her condition, and if that response comes out of a predigested belief about what the audience wants to hear about the writer's condition, then it has no truth, it has no validity. You either write with your own blood or nobody's.... Clive Barker
Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit. It is no easy task to understand unfamiliar blood; I hate the reading idlers. He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers—and spirit itself will stink. Friedrich Nietzsche
...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are often ruthlessly sacrificed. The poet self is the real self, the other one is the carrier; and when the poet self dies, the person dies. Susan Sontag
Haruki Murakami quote: "I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I..."
I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do. Haruki Murakami
Men have this climacteric, you know, like women. Doctors deny it, but I have met some very menopausal persons in their profession. Robertson Davies
If a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. Haruki Murakami

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