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

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Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before.

Andrew O'Hagan's Popular Quotes

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

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

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

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

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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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