Famous quotes by Writers

"There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"The universe is not fair, and it is never going to be fair"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"Police do not belong in war zones"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"There's no way for me to know, but my best guess, as it must be for everyone, is that other people are pretty much like me"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"Plot and character are virtually the same thing"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"Well, the future of the Internet is... Reality"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"There is virtually nothing I wouldn't be willing to do, to try and make sure that children have a fair shake in life"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"It's your body and your life and you have an absolute right to do with it as you choose"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad"

E. B. White, Writer

"There is a melancholy that stems from greatness"

Nicolas Chamfort, Writer

"There are two things that one must get used to, or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men"

Nicolas Chamfort, Writer

"The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity"

Nicolas Chamfort, Writer

"Writing is hard work, and bad for the health"

E. B. White, Writer

"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature, and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"

E. B. White, Writer

"I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel"

E. B. White, Writer

"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one"

E. B. White, Writer

"English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street"

E. B. White, Writer

"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right, more than half of the time"

E. B. White, Writer

"A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy"

E. B. White, Writer

"Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures"

Nicolas Chamfort, Writer

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