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You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#book #bright #bubble #cathedral #contains

I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#i #ideas #libertarian #like #lot

I think anytime you start relying on a format to get you by you've got weak material to begin with. ↗

— Drew Curtis

#begin #format #get #got #i

So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it. ↗

— Catie Curtis

#day #eight #enough #feels #five

How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy. ↗

— Anna Held

#am #bath #cold #courage #early

My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar! ↗

— Iris Dement

#give #guitar #i #really #though

Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end. ↗

— John Cusack

#characters #couple #dumb #end #explosions

When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt. ↗

— Clive Cussler

#around #be different #different #doing #dreamed

The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible. ↗

— Marquis De Custine

#become #country #everything #flattering #frankness

Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point. ↗

— Lloyd Cutler

#affairs #asked #assistant #became #because