Timothy Hallinan famous quotes
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The chuckle is a perfectly acceptable form of laughter.
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The enemy is not the badly written page; it is the empty page the great advantage of a badly written page is that it can be rewritten. It can be improved. A blank page is zero. In fact, it’s worse than zero, because it represents territory you’re afraid, unwilling, or too lazy to explore. Avoid exploring this territory long enough, and you’ll abandon your book.
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It's responsible for the sloppiness and imprecision of the War on Terror, for example. It's responsible for taking people's tax dollars and spending the country into debt on useless wars and pointless pork projects to buy votes. It's responsible for bailing out the banks instead of standing up for the people the banks cheated. It's responsible for plenty,
-- Timothy Hallinan
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Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as the church, shorn of her strength by her own sin, is an object of ridicule to the world, who cry in derision, "Where is your boasted triumph and your Millennial glory?
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But a child's joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son's laughter began to her heart, a feat she had never believed possible
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
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When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.
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I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.
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If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge , not innocence.
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There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.
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There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.
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We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes--and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.
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Games are the most elevated form of investigation.
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