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“It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon monocultural commodity production, the clear-cutting of written and spoken English.”

Said Past Half Clear Cutting Written Productions Following Decades Instance Tragic Commodity Vocabulary Clear Cutting Spoken English

Book:Epicurean Simplicity

Source: Epicurean Simplicity

“The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free.”

Past Suffering Cutting Written Mma Rope Anchors Cutting Myself

Author:Mark Millar

“Stallone is a great writer. He wrote one of the best screenplays ever written. Rocky. It is one of the biggest classics of all time. I think in the past, he was shying away from writing his own stuff, because there is a lot of pressure when you star in something that you write.”

Thinking Writing Past Stars Stuff Written Pressure All Time Screenplays Great Writers

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“The light that has guided us is still unquenched, and the causes that have carried us so far in the van of free nations have not spent their power; because the story of the future is written in the past, and that which hath been is the same thing that shall be.”

Stills Stories Light Past Nations Causes Written Vans

Book:The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.”

Ifs Knows Giving Long Book Past Asks Given Answers Written Periods Ask Me This Day Given Up

Author:V. S. Naipaul

“I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered. Certainly I have written enough of it to demonstrate that I harbor no disdain for literary journalism or just plain journalism, under whose sponsorship I have been able to express much that has fascinated me, or alarmed me, or amused me, or otherwise engaged my attention when I was not writing a book.”

Source: This Quiet Dust and Other Writings

“It's as if all your past is written on the blackboard, and if we could erase it, your past would no longer exist. The way you do that - the only way you do that - is in samadhi.”

Ifs Way Past Written Our Past Your Past Erase Samadhi Blackboard

Author:Frederick Lenz

“One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future - and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking to scientists, to experts in coding and to young people about.”

People Thinking Needs Should Has Beens Problem Past Young Talking Written Subjects Fit Computer Should Have Scientist Experts Computer Science Curriculum Ict

Author:Michael Gove

“Laura Alicia Deverell was born on May 10th, 1862, at precisely a quarter past one o'clock on a Thursday morning. Those interested in that pseudo-science astrology or astromancy may trace her life and character, if they wish, among the stars, where no doubt it is all written.”

Ifs May Book Character Past Wish Stars Born Morning Doubt Written Clock No Doubt Quarters Astrology Pseudo Thursday Laura

Author:Susan Ertz

“I had written for Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman in the past. Jimmy had a different voice, and different priorities. He couldnt be the bad guy in the joke; he couldnt upset people, really.”

People Different Past Guy Voice Written Jokes Priorities Upset Bad Guys Jimmy Different Voices

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it in other people when I see it - past and present. I feel comfortable with what I have accomplished. I feel happy to be able to work in that environment, and that I have a lot of songs left to be written, somewhere.”

People Feels Able Past Song Left Environment Written Lovers Comfortable Admire Crafts Accomplished Songwriting Great Love Past And Present Great Lovers

Author:John Fogerty

“Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.”

Source: Occasions and protests