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Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do. ~ Don DeLillo
But then it came time for me to make my journey - into America. [ ... N]o coincidence that my first novel is called Americana. That became my subject, the subject that shaped my work. When I get a French translation of one of my books that says 'translated from the American', I think, 'Yes, that's exactly right. ~ Don DeLillo
Language follows its own path. It can bridge gulfs of class and geography in the most remarkable ways. ~ Robert McCrum
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know. ~ Don DeLillo
I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne. ~ Don DeLillo
Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now. ~ Don DeLillo
We are not native. We have no generations of Americans behind us. We have roots elsewhere. We are looking in from the outside. To me, that seems to be perfectly natural. ~ Don DeLillo
Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird. ~ Don DeLillo
Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam. ~ Don DeLillo
I'm not reclusive at all. Just private. ~ Don DeLillo
Love for Robert Manis is not unattainable, its more untenable. And that's what makes him all the more desirable. Mercy ~ James Lee Nathan III
Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom. ~ Robert E. Howard
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme. ~ Robert Breault
She'd thrown something at the mirror, and then the mirror broke into a thousand pieces and she knew that wasn't all; she was breaking into a thousand pieces, too. ~ Robert Bloch
With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case; and the knot that we cut by some fine heady quarrel-scene in private life, or, in public affairs, by some denunciatory act against what we are pleased to call our neighbour's vices might yet have been unwoven by the hand of sympathy. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
We are all capable of living each day with a fiery passion and sense of purpose that radiates in our smile and voice. ~ Robert Cheeke
Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary. ~ Robert Musil
An ideology can be defined as a group of beliefs that individuals borrow; most people borrow an ideology by identifying with a social group ... with a body of sacred documents and heroes. ~ Robert E Lane
When you're truly happy, you are being yourself. ~ Robert Holden
when a Greek or Roman individual wanted to communicate a concept, he or she would typically write a theological treatise or lay out a rhetorical argument or speech about the topic. When a Hebrew teacher would seek to communicate something, he would often convey the message through a story. ~ Robert F. Gallaty
I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week. ~ Robert Carlyle
In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out. ~ Robert A. Heinlein
I thought it had a very compelling opening, and after a couple of pages, I had that feeling of 'I'm in good hands,' and eager to see where this is going. I felt lots of intrigue, stakes, and conflict right from the outset, with a clear, terse writing style that drew me in right away.
--Erik Bork, Emmy Award winning screenwriter, Band of Brothers. ~ Robert Child
Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of passion? Is not that man civilized whose reason sits the crowned monarch of his brain - whose passions are his servants? ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and rule the world in terms of dialectic truths, had lost. He had built empires of scientific capability to manipulate the phenomena of nature into enormous manifestations of his own dreams of power and wealth ... but for this he had exchanged an empire of understanding of equal magnitude: an understanding of what it is to be a part of the world, and not an enemy of it. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
I am grown peaceful as old age tonight. ~ Robert Browning
However, it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice. It's not very factual on motorcycles either. ~ Robert M. Pirsig
I remember little of the Yukon or what I wrote there. ~ Robert W. Service
When you believe you will get what you deserve, you will get what you deserve ~ Robert J. Braathe
Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece. ~ Robert Henri
Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child's world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter how much you fancy there is a separate world of your own. ~ Robert Breault
However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems. ~ Robert Huber
Of course I'd hallucinate a zebra. Why couldn't I dream up Robert Pattinson or, better yet, a river of Gatorade? ~ Lynne Matson
And he has never
given up his conviction that if you just try all the doors one of them is bound to be the Door into
Summer. You know, I think he is right. ~ Heinlein Robert A.
I think it's strange for people to read about themselves, no matter what's portrayed or how it's portrayed. But they get used to it, and I think they're fine with it. ~ Robert Kurson
Under tyranny it is right to be a rebel! ~ Robert Fanney
Behind every impossible achievement is a dreamer of impossible dreams." - Robert K. Greenleaf ~ Brian P. Moran
In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions. ~ Robert Toombs
Christmas and New Year had been and gone, leaving a cold aseptic void. Shop ~ Robert Bryndza
All those religions
they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying. ~ Robert A. Heinlein
Wisdom and love have nothing to do with each other. Wisdom is staying alive, survival. You're wise if you don't stick your finger in the light plug. Love - you'll stick your finger in anything. ~ Robert Altman
I believe that, seven generations beyond us, those who look back on our time will find that it was the cry of the trees that helped to restart the dreaming and foster the understanding that we must dream not only for ourselves but also for our communities and for all that shares life with us in our fragile bubble of air. ~ Robert Moss
Each sunrise is a precious jewel ... for it may never be followed by its sunset. ~ Robert A. Heinlein
we cleared out of the river, and he had the ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter? ~ Robert Plant
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
With psychiatric medications, you solve one problem for a period of time, but the next thing you know you end up with two problems. The treatment turns a period of crisis into a chronic mental illness. - Amy Upham (203) ~ Robert Whitaker
looking about him at the cliffs and up at our signboard. "This is a handy cove," says he at length; "and a pleasant ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
I've never been afraid of the American Nazi Party, on the grounds that anybody dumb enough to pick a name like that is not a serious threat. Any real fascist movement that's a threat, that's serious and really endangers us, would call itself the Red, White, and Blue Christian American Party, or something like that. They wouldn't be dumb enough to call themselves Nazis. ~ Robert Anton Wilson
I'm surprised when I see someone doing the logical, commonsense thing: Walk facing the oncoming traffic. ~ Robert James Thomson