Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance. Charles De Gaulle Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone. Charles De Gaulle France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war. Charles De Gaulle I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge. Charles De […]
7 Quotations From Carlos Fuentes
I am a morning writer I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day’s writing. Carlos Fuentes I am not interested in slice of […]
Carol Ann Duffy Quotations
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. Carol Ann Duffy Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there’s no way I’d do anything to undermine that belief. Carol Ann Duffy I grew up in a […]
15 Quotes From Calvin Trillin
Canadians are very well behaved, they don’t throw their food. Calvin Trillin Health food makes me sick. Calvin Trillin I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can’t get rid of. Calvin Trillin I don’t cook. I […]
Camille Paglia Quotes And Sayings
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on ‘All My Children’ when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies’ necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of […]
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