Poe Ballantine famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A bilingual marriage, by the way, is a great way to stay together for longer than you normally would because you can't understand each other very well.
-- Poe Ballantine

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Amazon is evil, like anything big, but we can't help if it flows the very center of literature.
-- Poe Ballantine

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Short chaps evolved naturally, but I didn't title and number them till much later. I like short chaps, like short books too, as a rule.
-- Poe Ballantine

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The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.
Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.
We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesnâ€™t work. You have to do it all together.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.
She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.
How do I speak Spanish? Not too well.
It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.
I have a great story to tell and I tell it well. No holds barred.

Poe Ballantine famous quotes

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