- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
'As the World Turns' was such a great experience and such a great school for me. It was better than any class I could have ever taken.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not to get too deep, but I think one of the reasons we embrace superheroes and this world is that these are just normal people that have incredible powers that are relatable in some ways - in that we don't have great super powers, but there's strength within us that we can utilize in our lives. Ultimately, they're just normal people with problems.
- Harsh Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, and it's too painful to connect in the world in any real way mid-process. The only way to survive is to write until it is all said and done.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember Karoi as a very hot, flat place, but in reality, it is all hills. We just lived next to an airstrip - the only flat piece of land around. That was my world as a three-year-old and sums up the indelible power of memory to a young child.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems very clear to me that we, in the West, cannot afford to continue assuming propriety over the world's resources in a careless, greedy way without paying for it - not only with the lives of our loved ones, but also with our souls.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to find some way of engaging with the world around you, however it's constituted. The engagement is necessarily going to be flawed. But if you do it on your own terms, you'll be able to extract some pleasure from the world. It might even make you really happy sometimes.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the surreal writing that I love is really dreamlike. Like Murakami. He uses the real world, and it's pretty recognizable, but its populated by these strange visitors, or it has these underground spaces. I was always really compelled by that.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's now possible to play and take lessons from any place of the world. The concept of physical distance doesn't exist in the online world, and that is so cool!
- Coolest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since I've been a little kid I've always wanted superpowers, which is the coolest thing in the world.
- Nov 07, 2020
We are trying to work around the world. We would like very much to cooperate with the United States.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I'd say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I don't go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wherever I go in the world, people all know about Scotland Street and are always asking me about what's going to happen to the characters next.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020