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“Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.”

People Writing Stories Night Novel Late Relation Technique Bars Short Story

Author:W. H. Auden

“We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the balance of life in a particular context. Or we discover too late that the importation of a foreign life-form, animal or vegetable, has upset local ecosystems, damaging soil or neighbouring life-forms. We discover that we have come near the end of supplies-of fossil-fuels for example -on which we have built immense structures of routine expectation.”

Source: Faith in the Public Square

“Before it's too late, we need to make courageous choices that will recreate a strong alliance between man and Earth. We need a decisive 'yes' to care for creation and a strong commitment to reverse those trends that risk making the situation of decay irreversible.”

“Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded.”

Millions Waste Late Environmental Chemicals Pollution Discarded

Book:Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment

Source: Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment

“I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets home early or vice-versa. I travel more, and he's able to spell me when I'm gone.”

Ifs Children Home Able Gone Lucky Husband Late Vices Partners My Husband Spells Vice Versa Child Rearing

Author:Bonnie Hammer

“Most great figures in world history are remembered for their compassion. [Martin Luther] King shared this trait with the Ghandis, Mother Teresas, and Mandelas of the world. He also shared this trait with the late Stanley Tookie Williams.”

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Author:Renford Reese

“Society is completely unreasonable. People want everything and want to pay for nothing. They panic if they think about their taxes being raised, but if their garbage collection is a day late they scream and yell.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Pay Taxes Late Raised Collections Scream Panic Garbage Unreasonable

Author:Michael Schur

“When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that women would soon stand equal with men in science. But progress has proved slower than many of us imagined.”

Men Progress Students Equal Late Majors Female Fellows Physics

Author:Margaret Wertheim

“Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.”

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Author:Adam Ross

“I lived in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s. It was, for a Westerner, pretty idyllic. There were the religious police; there were the rules; there were the prayer times. But it was as if we were existing in two separate universes. The Westerners were just allowed to get on with their way of life.”

Ifs Way Two Universe Religious Prayer Late Police Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Westerners Idyllic Prayer Time

Author:Robert Lacey

“Anxiety is secretive. He does not trust anyone, not even his friends, Worry, Terror, Doubt and Panic ... He likes to visit me late at night when I am alone and exhausted. I have never slept with him, but he kissed me on the forehead once, and I had a headache for two years.”

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Author:J. Ruth Gendler

“When you improvise on the spot, people are very reluctant to have soft moments or quiet moments or sad moments because they're trying to fill up the spaces. So they always go towards, "How come you're late?! You're supposed to have my shirt ready! You call this a dry cleaner?!" That's what happens. That's why improvising on the spot gets very dicey.”

People Trying Moments Happens Space Ready Quiet Late Spots Shirts Dry Reluctant Cleaners Improvising Quiet Moments Dry Cleaners Sad Moments

Author:Albert Brooks

“Late night chaining of videos and basically obsessing are rare for me, and often I've never even seen the videos of my favourite songs. That said, in terms of my own personal magic, video has probably rated lower than most music fans.”

Said Night Song Term My Own Magic Fans Late Video Favourite Late Night Obsessing Music Fans Favourite Songs

Author:Kieron Gillen

“I started boxing late but I've always been a fighter all my life.”

Late Fighter Boxing

Author:George Tahdooahnippah

“We all grew up in that era. I'm a little younger than these guys [Will Forte and John Solomon], but I would say all of us are huge fans of the original "MacGyver" series, and obviously we found that inspiration for the original pitch for MacGruber. We took his name and made it stupid. In terms of the inspiration for the movie, that really came from our love for late '80s/early '90s action movies - the whole "Lethal Weapon" series and "Rambo" and "Die Hard," every single [Arnold] Schwarzenegger and [Sylvester] Stallone film.”

“I am a late starter. I like to go on into the night when it's quiet and everything has shut down. I find that's where music and minds open in the dark.”

Mind Night Dark Goes On Quiet Late Starters

Author:Shelby Lynne

“I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late.”

Want Humor Funny Fun Comedy Fronts Late Machines Mad Glasses Bars Too Late Candy Magnifying Eyeglasses Magnifying Glass Candy Bar Vending Machines

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies.”

Writing Hard Night Listening Late Wine Drinking Radio Smoking Classical Music Drinking Wine

Author:Charles Bukowski

“You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something.”

Knows Want Shows Humor Funny Sea Tvs Late Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Let It Go Trout Fishing

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“In your late teens and early twenties, everything is idealism. Everything should just work in black and white. That's good. You need that. I think most revolutions are started by people in their teens and twenties.”

People Thinking Needs Should Black White Revolution Late Twenties Teens Black And White Idealism

Author:LeCrae

“Sometimes I watch myself fly. For in the history of human flight it is not yet so very late; and a man may still wonder once in a while and ask: how is it that I, poor earth-habitituated animal, can fly?”

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Author:Wolfgang Langewiesche

“If you really think back to the great writers, there's a lot of happiness in Tolstoy; there's a lot of love, there's childbirth, and there's dances. And likewise in Shakespeare and even Cervantes, there's a lot of celebrations of the positive manifestations of life. Technically, I found it harder to do, so that's kind of a good late-life challenge - without getting sentimental or chirpy.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Found Challenges Late Harder Manifestation Celebration Sentimental Childbirth Great Writers Life Challenges

Author:George Saunders

“The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! For the world says: "You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the most rich and powerful. Don't be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires."”

World Self Desire Powerful Rich Rights Late Destruction Slavery Satisfying Consumerism Reign Self Destruction Overconsumption

Book:GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD

Source: GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD

“I write a lot of my best music in the car, like late night. Three, four in the morning. I'm in the passenger seat, I got my driver, my getaway driver. My Bonnie, I'm Clyde. That's when everything is just settled. In the daytime it's chaotic. Everybody just goin' nowhere fast. In a rush to go nowhere.”

Writing Night Three Morning Four Car Late Seats Drivers Chaotic Passengers Daytime Late Night Getaways Passenger Seat

Author:Kevin Gates

“I'm a child of the '60s, I came of age then. I went to a couple of demonstrations, and then in the late '60s when the Vietnam anti-war movement grew as the Vietnam War was heating up, I became very involved in that.”

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Author:Simi Linton

“I found it incredibly disheartening that in the late '90s, suddenly pop culture became even more misogynistic and more homophobic, and so I criticized Eminem for having lyrics that were egregiously homophobic and egregiously misogynistic.”

Culture Found Late Pops Pop Culture Homophobic Disheartening

Author:Moby

“During the Mavelmania days in the late '60's I got a phone call one evening and I answered it and this voice said, "Mike Royer? This is Jack Kirby. Word is you're a pretty good inker." That's how it started.”

Said Voice Late Phones Evening Mike Phone Calls

Author:Mike Royer

“There are different rules for comic books now. You've got prima donna's that are dealing with the direct sales market, so if they say it's going to be late, then that's what you tell the dealers and it's late.”

Ifs Book Different Late Direct Comic Comic Book Dealer Prima Donnas Direct Sales

Author:Mike Royer

“I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to write scripts for television. I wrote for my comedy act. Then I wrote screenplays, and then I started writing New Yorker essays, and then I started writing plays. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the New Yorker essays, but they were comic. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the '90s. In my head, there was a link between everything. One thing led to another.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“Has anyone seen me on Letterman? Two million people watch that show and I don't know where they are. You might have seen this next comedian on the Late Show, but I think more people have seen me at the store. That should be my introduction. "You might have seen this next comedian at the store," and people would say "Hell yes I have!"”

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Author:Mitch Hedberg

“People ask me for my autograph after a show. I'm not famous, I think they're messing with me. I think they're trying to make me late for something.”

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Author:Mitch Hedberg

“There was a product on late night TV that you could attach to your garden hose - "You can water your hard-to-reach plants with this." Who would make their plants hard to reach? That seems so very mean. I know you need water, but I'm going to make you hard to reach. "Think like a cactus!"”

Thinking Knows Needs Mean Hard Humor Seems Funny Night Water Tvs Products Late Garden Plant Late Night Very Mean Cactus

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.”

Different Together Culture Social Voice Century Late Poetic Fabric Twentieth Century Convergence American Poetry

Author:Adrienne Rich

“I'm hugely inspired by music. I am a big listener of 60's and 70's classic rock. And i really just love the overall freedom of that time, of the late 60's and 70's. I love that you had so many different ways of expressing yourself, fashion was really one of them, the idea of clashing didn't exist, and people were using clothes as an opportunity to express who they were. That is inspiring to me - you could mix textiles, fabrics, you were 100% who you were, and that's where my main inspiration comes from.”

People Way Ideas Different Bigs Inspiration Opportunity Rocks Fashion Late Clothes Inspired Different Ways Classic Fabric Listeners Express Yourself Textiles Classic Rock

Author:Nicole Richie

“One of the interesting things I discovered is that in the late 19th century, painters actually had black-and-white copies made of their own paintings. They chose it even over photographs because they knew the photographic medium would distort their work.”

Made Black White Interesting Century Painting Late Photograph Mediums Painter Copies Black And White Interesting Things 19th Century

Author:Robert Longo

“The ebb and flow as an artist is a bizarre experience, for sure. I was lucky enough to become successful pretty young - in late '79, 1980 - with a body of work that got recognized and became an archetype.”

Enough Body Young Artist Successful Lucky Late Flow Bizarre Archetype Becoming Successful Ebb And Flow

Author:Robert Longo

“You can't cure your own cancer, obviously, especially if it's late stage.”

Ifs Stage Late Cancer Cures

Author:Charlie Sheen

“My own interest in Yoga came from a vague understanding of Indian thought and Indian philosophy in the late sixties and early seventies and from looking at the idea of meditation and at what meditation was.”

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Author:Paul Harvey

“Yoga is a product of Eastern thought. A further complication is that the early Yoga teachers were both Indian and Hindu. So from the late 1800's and early 1900's the Yoga teachers who came across were as interested in Hinduism as in Yoga. Often what we were being taught was a mixture of two different systems.”

Two Different Teacher Taught Products Late Yoga Indian Hinduism Eastern Mixtures Complication Yoga Teachers

Author:Paul Harvey

“Poor soul - very sad; her late husband, you know, a very sad death - eaten by missionaries - poor soul.”

Knows Soul Humor Funny Poor Husband Late Very Sad

Author:William Archibald Spooner

“I have just realized that it is due to you, and to Mr. James Thomas and his staff of the Army Navy Country Club that the putting green here on the White House lawn is already in such excellent condition. I assure you that I get a great deal of pleasure and relaxation out of using the green in an occasional late afternoon hour . . .”

“Nothing I study makes me think we will survive this century. And yet why am I so happy? Because it's not too late. Just get off your ass and work for revolution.”

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Author:Patch Adams

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