Ian Mcewan Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It’s a little easier if you’ve got a god to forgive you. – Ian Mcewan Atheists Quotes Bad Quotes Conscience Quotes Conviction Quotes Deed Quotes Deep Quotes Easier Quotes Forgive Quotes God Quotes People Quotes Reconcile Quotes Religious Quotes What I’ve discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can’t really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring. It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
Mj Rodriguez Being able to change the world and change hearts and minds – it’s uplifting. – Mj Rodriguez
A J Jacobs The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much. – A J Jacobs
Charlie Kaufman So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives. – Charlie Kaufman
Dan Bongino I definitely have a real frustration with the media, especially having dealt with them as an agent. – Dan Bongino
John Hodgman More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross; but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about. – John Hodgman
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