Christopher Moore Quotes
I thought I was going to be a horror story writer. My influences were horror writers, like Rich Matheson, Ray Bradbury and Bram Stoker.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.
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I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.
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In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
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Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
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Mapping and visualization is a huge area of work and is of interest to many people. We're working on reinventing a new kind of 3D cartography to make it easier to tell stories with 3D maps.
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Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
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There is a reason for everything.
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As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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I'd like to do a romantic comedy.
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Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter... the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.
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When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal is illegal.
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Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence - helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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I think 'House of Night' blew up the way it did because it offered so many people a fantasy that they can be... vampires are very alluring.
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It could potentially be a very competitive race.
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As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
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Before I was 12 years old, I had no interest in music; I was just into football. Then I heard Don McLean's 'Vincent' come on at the end of an episode of 'The Simpsons.' You know when you hear something and you don't understand why you like it, you just do? That's how I felt. I just thought, 'I want to be able to write songs like that.'
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I thought I was going to be a horror story writer. My influences were horror writers, like Rich Matheson, Ray Bradbury and Bram Stoker.
