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- Nov 07, 2020
Think Quotes
Quotes that share what people really think.
Many quotes here open with a direct 'I think,' offering personal beliefs - some lighthearted, like using comedy as a defense, others sobering, including grim predictions about where humanity is headed. A few weigh in on cryptography and the future of communication, a subject also touched on in Life Quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Pilates - I am a really big believer in it as a practise; I think it's fab.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to think about how I was conceived quite a lot when I was about 10 or 11, but I don't think about it at all now that so many other babies have been born in the same way.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.
- Nov 07, 2020
Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live on the margin of just about everything. I'm a marginal person, and I think that is where I've become comfortable. I'm marginally there in my native life. I can do as much as I can, but I'm always German, too, you know, and I'm always a mother. That's my first identity, but I'm always a writer, too.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want kids to think that reading can be just as much fun and more so than TV or video games or whatever else they do. I think any other kind of message or morals that I might teach is secondary to first just enjoying a book.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an avid bridge player. I usually go to the local bridge club three or four times a week. I've always been a game-player, and I think bridge is one of the greatest games ever invented. It's too bad that not many young people play it any more.
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- Nov 07, 2020