#take

I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#around #go #go home #home #i

My relationships with my loved ones always take precedence over work. ↗

— Lexa Doig

#loved #loved ones #ones #over #precedence

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

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In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement. ↗

— Heather Donahue

#destroying #full #here #i #la

Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#consequences #culture #institution #intelligence #located

It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it. ↗

— Donatella Versace

#criticism #criticize #easy #everybody #life

My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am. ↗

— Peter Fonda

#am #below #different #far #how

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#business #businessmen #capable #democracy #democratic

I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process. ↗

— Shelby Foote

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There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result. ↗

— Steve Forbes

#away #better #control #fundamentally #government