- Animal Rights
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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even more than we want good love for ourselves, we want it for our children, those vulnerable satellites of our hearts that we send, unsteady, into the world.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm going to be staying up until 3 A.M., it should be for world peace and not shampoo sales.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next 50 years, because the country has the largest number of landmines in the world.
- Pakistan
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hollywood is a world all its own.
- Nov 07, 2020
We have a world that is searching for answers, that is searching for a way back to spirituality.
- Follies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I throw everything I have into whatever story I'm writing - and so there's something immensely gratifying about finishing one piece and then starting fresh with a new setting, time period and cast of characters, getting to see the world through a completely different lens each time.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters and takes their situations really seriously, and you feel like you're just dropped into a different world.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the main reasons I write fiction is to try to understand what life is like for people other than myself, to try to see the world through my characters' eyes. I often find that I'm able to understand certain emotional truths about my own life by exploring things from different vantages.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never believed it's a fiction writer's job to create an exact replica of the past, a diorama the reader can step right into. But it is my responsibility to learn everything of the world I'm writing about, to become an expert in the politics and history that formed my characters' identities.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like that it's challenging - that when I'm writing, I feel as if I'm pouring everything I have into the story until there's nothing left and I have to begin thinking about a new world and set of circumstances to research and explore.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't imagine writing something that didn't address Jewish themes and questions. It's such a big part of my life, a lot of the way in which I experience the world.
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an artist and a journalist. I travel around the world very often for 'Vice Magazine,' and I draw and I write about prisons, about conflict zones.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020