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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #tory




I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.


Antonia Fraser


#began #book #brilliant #change #daisy

It was if the charming theatrical curtain had dropped away and I saw him for the first time as he really was: not the benign old sage, the indulgent and protective good-parent of my dreams, but ambiguous, a moral neutral, whose beguiling trappings concealed a being watchful, capricious, and heartless.


Donna Tartt


#dreams

The images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought.


Peter Fraser


#capture #conscious #conscious thought #everything #images

In politics, victory is never total.


Donald Freed


#politics #total #victory

Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.


Cornelia Funke


#books #children #earth #go #i

Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.


Neil Gaiman


#generation #kind #length #like #our

There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth.


Mark Kurlansky


#dreams #history #vision #war #dreams

This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.


George Takei


#exploit #manipulate #participating #participatory #people

Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.


George Takei


#history #market #star #star trek #trek

I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.


Quentin Tarantino


#i #storytelling #strengths #think