#ten

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story. ↗

— Annie Proulx

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I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

#concentrated #day #hard #hard work #i

There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts. ↗

— Jiang Qing

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When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence. ↗

— Randy Quaid

#centre #come #down #existence #go

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert. ↗

— Pasquier Quesnel

#does #enlightens #irritates #only #those

The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#dependent #disarmament #extent #first #great

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides. ↗

— Robert Quillen

#accurately #anything #attention #called #chiefly

I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they're practically like a news scrim that goes through my brain 24/7. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

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My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to. ↗

— Robert Quine

#develop #i #listening #miles #miles davis

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues. ↗

— Quintilian

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