- Life
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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
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all part of a larger collective looking to create a more beautiful and just world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I wish I would have been told more often that I was right and nothing was wrong with me, that I was deserving of everything this world has to offer, and that my visions for my future were worthy of pursuit.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to live in a world of unicorns and rainbows where I don't pay attention to anything unless it's positive.
- Nov 07, 2020
We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.
- Fundamental Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's just so much craziness out there in the world; it's like I couldn't fit them all in my books.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing when I was 21. I was going to become an historian. And then I realized there was more to the world than just the past. I didn't want to spend my life in the library.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't even hear the notes. I'm not aware that someone has turned on a tape machine - I'm in another world.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis.
- Gathered
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- Nov 07, 2020