Nicholas Mosley Quotes

#1. After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.

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#2. Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.

Pearl S. Buck

#3. The conceit of literary intellectuals is to imagine that other people don't have ideas so that they can assume a superior status by having their own...

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#4. Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

Anita DeFrantz

#5. There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.

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#6. I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.

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#7. Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are.

Woodrow Wilson

#8. Love is in prospect or retrospect, the present is ecstasy.

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#9. If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell.

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#10. He's a haircut and a forehand.

Ivan Lendl

#11. The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.

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#12. It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.

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#13. Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash.

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#14. Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have

Alonzo King

#15. The problem is Twitter is designing the metaphorical equivalent of a Toyota Prius. A car for the masses. While I want a Formula One race car.

Robert Scoble

#16. Security will produce danger.

Samuel Johnson

#17. I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

Guy Ritchie

#18. What if the need to have a hard time is built into human nature?

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#19. I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is.

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#20. My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

Thomas Moore

#21. We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal ... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises.

Pawel Pawlikowski

#22. Chili is much improved by having had a day to contemplate its fate.

John Steele Gordon

#23. I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.

John Garamendi

#24. Love is Noise.
Love is silence.
In love you're human.
In love you possess magical powers.
In love you shelter yourself.
In love, you expose yourself.

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#25. It is very difficult to love people who are good to us: it is easier to imagine we are loving people we can condescend to.

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#26. To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.

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#27. It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.

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