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I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.


Elizabeth George


#around #attempt #critics #decided #globe

Every time economic and technical development takes a step forward, forces emerge which attempt to create political forms for what, on the economic-technical plane, has already more or less become reality.


Christian Lous Lange


#attempt #become #create #development #economic

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.


Christopher Lasch


#arrangement #attempt #delusion #grows #keep

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.


Christopher Lasch


#american #attempt #capitalism #family #industry

We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry.


James Laughlin


#anthology #any #attempt #just #like

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.


Joseph Barber Lightfoot


#away #energy #how #know #much

Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.


Rush Limbaugh


#avenue #because #believe #feminists #impose

The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.


Rush Limbaugh


#attempt #being #being used #depress #heck

Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.


Augustus Baldwin Longstreet


#cannot #describe #fights #followed #frantic

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.


Arthur Machen


#better #contemptible #department #exquisite #fail






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