Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I write first drafts with a mechanical pencil and a yellow legal pad. There's good reason for this primitive behavior: I am a crackerjack typist. My hand moves far more quickly than my brain. Stacy Schiff
Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck
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Toba Beta
It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.
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Nina Lacour
Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
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Diogenes Of Sinope
Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.
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Banana Yoshimoto
The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. It’s for their own good.
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Sophie Kinsella
More Quotes By Stacy Schiff
Confronted afterward, she claimed no knowledge of that bedroom tryst; she did not intend to be held responsible for men's dreams.
As Dio observed later, democracy sounded very well and good, “but its results are seen not to agree at all with its title. Monarchy, on the contrary, has an unpleasant sound, but is a most practical form of government to live under. For it is...
And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.
It is a dangerous thing to have the same men in both the prophecy and the history business.
History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy.
