- 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
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing can't change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We realize that if we live in a world that depends totally on CBS.com, we'd be dead.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
None of us get to divorce ourselves from the world. We walk into the theater and bring all of our grief and our pain and our joy with us.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Manners make the world work. They're not only based on kindness but also efficiency. When people know what to do, the world is smoother. When no one knows what to do, it's chaos.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you live in a world of imagination, your imagination doesn't necessarily grow old with you.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the world they captured in their books. I had had some experience living in Africa. I was drawn to that kind of adventure.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020