Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I'm not interested in writers who are overcome with certainty, with single-mindedness, or with a sense of how consistent and morally upstanding they are. My writers are in the thick of it and they seek the truth, rather than embody it, and sometimes they find truths that don't sit palatably or easily together. That's life. That's personality. And that's writing.

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I think I am becoming obsessive-compulsive. David Beckham apparently turns all the Diet Coke cans in his fridge to face the same way every morning, a…

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'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

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Given that most movies are bad, and that there are whole categories and sub-categories of badness - the sequel, the Madonna Movie, the Friday 13th Se…

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I grew up in a working-class community. I come from a big family. I knew Donald Trump would win because I knew he is what poor Americans think a rich…

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Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I w…

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Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp

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Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.

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We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time.

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A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

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