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The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. Milan Kundera

Attitude Wisdom World Tolerance Comprehend Dead Reader Built Question Teaches Certainties Novel Novelist

But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street. Mink Stole

Mother Corner Sign Would Some Some Things House Dead Dead End Still End Up Same Owns Grew Which Now Street Things

For my whole career, I didn't have sparring partners. I was frustrated when I came to the UFC because, after a few minutes of the first round, I would feel dead because I had no sparring partners. Mirko Cro Cop

First Few Would Minutes Had Feel Dead Partners Because Came After Frustrated Sparring Whole Round Career

There were no dead bodies in Watergate. Monica Crowley

Watergate Dead Were Bodies

A lot of people hoped that I died during my ill health. Some even reached out to the vice-president to consider them to be his deputy because they assumed I was dead. Muhammadu Buhari

Health People Assumed Consider Out Hoped Some Reached Dead Because His Lot Died Them Deputy Ill Even

I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone. N. R. Narayana Murthy

Past Gone Believe Dead Legacy Any

As 'Octomom,' I was the walking dead. When I woke up and I went back to my roots, my helping profession, and my kids, we were struggling financially, but it didn't matter. I never felt so free and so happy in my life. Nadya Suleman

Mubarak's regime is dead and finished. People will not go back to this. This is a farce being propagated by the Muslim Brotherhood to say that this revolution was supported by the remnants of the Mubarak regime. They have gone against the whole Egyptian society, and this is why they were removed. Naguib Sawiris

In the media business and as a creative executive, if you don't take risks, you're dead in the water. Calculated risk taking is essential for success. No one said it was easy. Nancy Dubuc

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After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near. Nat Turner

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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well. Nathalie Sarraute

France Carrying See Week Along Know Dead Well How Heard Impression Quite Often Produced Many Novel Novels

The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don't wait until they're dead. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness. Nevil Shute

Happiness Good Living Dead Going Ashes

The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction. Niall Ferguson

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Television is dead. And television will not be reborn. It will not come back. Nicolas Winding Refn

Will Back Television Come Dead Reborn

The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in politics, many of the greatest talents were dead or in exile, and their place was filled by third-rate imitators. Nina Simone

Politics Music Me Generation Imitators Over Like Talents Dead Protest Greatest Were Exile Years Just Place Many Whole Filled

I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you're dead. Norm MacDonald

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A bad historian is even more dangerous than dead documentary wood. Norman Davies

Dangerous Bad More Dead Documentary Historian Than Wood Even

I don't have a mullet, but going into season one on 'The Walking Dead,' I asked to have a mullet, and everybody talked me out of it. Because I'd have to wear a mullet when we were not shooting every day. I have that motorcycle, wings on my vest, the crossbow... Maybe a mullet would've thrown me over the edge. Norman Reedus

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The young man, born to rule England, which his dying father commended to him. Once his father is dead, London will cavil. The kingdom is taken back from his son. Nostradamus

Man Son Father Will Young Back Once Rule London Born Kingdom Taken Dead Him His Dying Which Young Man England

I was chastised for writing several obituaries for Malcolm X, exploring different aspects of his writing. One teacher in particular told me, didn't I think I was beating a dead horse? and dismissively threw my paper on my desk. Ntozake Shange

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