- Memories
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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a border prosecutor, I've put criminals behind bars who worked for some of the most violent cartels in the world.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything that feels like good characters, I am excited to do whether I write it or not. But if I don't find it in the world, I will write it myself.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our friendships are really the epicenter of our social world and emotional lives.
- War
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it hadn't been for Bill Macdonald's book 'The True Intrepid,' I might never have found out about the women who went down to work in secret in New York for our own spymaster Sir William Stephenson in the Second World War.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the loss of my sister - my darkest time - I tried to think of the beauty she'd brought to this world and the lives she had touched and the love she had left behind.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that's the case, then everything needs to be rewritten now, right now.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
So much of memory comes from the beginning of our lives when we know the world for the first time with a kind of clarity. It is that discovery of the past in the present on which a writer depends again and again as if our lost childhoods, like the surprising cyclamen plant, are forever opening new blossoms.
- Nov 07, 2020
'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a novelist is the adult version of a kid creating a make-believe world. But unlike a child, a writer of fiction has to come up with a structured story, one that has as much meaning for others as it has for her.
- Gratitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
With my representation of a black woman in the world today, there's such a powerful response from my community about what it means to have black representation on television. That response is so overwhelming and so strong that I just have to express my own gratitude for it, because I understand the necessity for it.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I say is that there's this culture and this vibe and this community in Brooklyn that's so amazing and wonderful, and it has influence on the world. That's the part of Brooklyn that I love and I begin to miss.
- Nov 07, 2020