The making of television has changed quite a bit. Now you have to do them n cheaper budgets.
Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.
Aerow creates a drawn out sense of pressure with the use of rather simplistic. Quite frankly, [the music] is fantastic.
However it happens, the appeal of the books we return to is often, at least in part, a fascination with what we can’t quite reach.
Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.
In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.
The idea that somebody who has done something horrible in a war is not willing to talk about it for 32 years is hardly a shocking idea. Quite the contrary.
The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.
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Having experimented in both poetry and prose, I can say that the two are such loaded words. But neither are quite as weighted as the word “poet”. I think some people can write poetry their whole lives, and never truly BE a “poet”. Whereas I s...
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En inglés, Borogove’” I said. “But what if I don’t finish this painting in time?” “Teresa, I insist, you must call me Mimsy. If you weren’t going to finish it, they would have arranged a later pickup date, since they already know what ...
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