- Great
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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
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberals are my friends, my colleagues, my social world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the religious Right and religious people in general have the feeling that the world is not just material, the world is not just there for us to do what we want with. That our bodies, things have an immaterial essence, a spiritual essence that God is in all of us.
- Disarmed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun in the house would increase the risk of an accident for a member of their family, but they're willing to take that risk.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that good storytelling of any kind does promote a humility in that it encourages you to see the world the way that other people see it.
- Francisco
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we finished 'Stop Making Sense,' we went right to the San Francisco Film Festival for the world premiere, and people swarmed the stage and started dancing before the first song was even finished.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have millions of dollars you are not going to get to continue doing what you want. You are into a world of commitment to that money and all the people that helped you get that money.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of the human population of the world. But in my little, soft realm of trying to amuse a few dozen middle-class people with my books and articles, I did struggle to survive in my own way.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to look to New York.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know that I've gotten much feedback directly from the literary world; sometimes I doubt even the notion that there is a literary world, though I guess there is or was.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I honestly do feel - and I hope I don't gag anybody if they read this - but I feel like I'm one of the luckiest people in the world.
- Beautiful Woman
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.
- Beautiful Woman
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020