Arthur Evans famous quotes
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Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy.
-- Arthur Evans -
Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority, self-objectification, and chilling competitiveness. These character traits are the essence of the twisted personality-type of modern industrialism. They are precisely the character traits needed to maintain a social system that is utterly out of touch with nature, sexuality and real human needs.
-- Arthur Evans
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You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.
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Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.
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I can write better than anyone who can write faster,
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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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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Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.
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There are no halfway measures against bigotry, hatred and anti-Semitism. It's got to be rejected totally.
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They (the press) have a hatred of Manchester United.
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