Jeremy Larner famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If you're a writer, you want to get your soul out there, where people can look at it.
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For some people, their idea of getting tough is longer suspended sentences.
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Some good souls found The Candidate cynical. I wonder what they'll think when they read this portrait of the real-life Jerry Brown... This is the book that could force the little fox into the open.
-- Jeremy Larner
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If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
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This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
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Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
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Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
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The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
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I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.
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