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• All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.

  Martin Amis

  Writing, Two, Novelists

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• Women are not men's equals in anything except responsibility. We are not their inferiors, either, or even their superiors. We are quite simply different races.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Responsibility, Men, Race

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.

  Karl Abraham

  Difficult Questions, Long, Choices

  Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.”

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• Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans.

  Philip K. Dick

  Unique, Solitude, World

  Philip K. Dick (1985). “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon”, Doubleday Books

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• My philosophy in life, where I was trying to get, could have been a little bit different.

  Joe Namath

  Philosophy, Trying, Littles

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• Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different.

  Huston Smith

  Essence, Shells, Way

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• It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

  Huston Smith

  Civilization, Looks, Revelations

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• In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.

  Julian Barnes

  Art, Order, Elements

  Julian Barnes, Vanessa Guignery, Ryan Roberts (2009). “Conversations with Julian Barnes”, p.65, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.

  Rick Mercer

  Kids, Get Better, Good Enough

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• I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Two, Legs

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• Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Couple, Thinking, Acting

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• The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.

  George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham

  World, Way, Path

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• The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

  Douglas Coupland

  Two, Eternity, Different Things

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• I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.

  Ann Beattie

  Summer, Song, Boys

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• There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.

  Ann Beattie

  Writing, Might, Way

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• Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Ocean, Sleep, Eye

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2011). “China Men”, p.107, Vintage

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• But they were as different as fire and ice. Robert Kennedy thought Eugene McCarthy was pompous, petty, and venal. McCarthy thought Kennedy was a spoiled, unintelligent demagogue.

  Jack Newfield

  Fire, Ice, Politician

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• When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Change, Two, Differences

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.27, Univ of California Press

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• I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something. A believer is someone who senses a consciousness or a direction and believes in it. The one who searches for meaning has not found the direction yet.

  Aharon Appelfeld

  Believe, Men, Belief

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• The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.

  Donna Tartt

  Book, Character, Long

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• A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times?

  Bill Moyers

  Events, Journalism, Conversation

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• Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.

  Jonathan Raban

  Children, College, Years

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• I don't think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of the bow and arrow. It's the nuclear age, and war can annihilate us all. The only way to achieve solutions seems to be for the different social systems to coexist.

  Fidel Castro

  War, Thinking, Arrows

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• Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.

  Deborah Tannen

  Men, Focus, Independence

  Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• True, I used to see a lot of hope. I saw men tear down the veils behind which the truth had been hidden. But then the same men, when they have power in their hands at last, began to find the veils useful. They made many more. Life has not changed. Only some people have been growing, becoming different, that is all. After a youth spent fighting the white man, why should not the president discover as he grows older that his real desire has been to be like the white governor himself, to live above all the blackness in the big old slave castle?

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Real, Fighting, Men

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