Franz Kafka Quotes
A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.
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I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.
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So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.
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Unfortunately, modeling takes you with no transition from being a girl to being a business woman.
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In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.
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I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.
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Adding a column of figures is a repetitive thought process, and it was long ago properly relegated to the machine. True, the machine is sometimes controlled by the keyboard, and thought of a sort enters in reading the figures and poking the corresponding keys, but even this is avoidable.
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A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition; and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas.
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To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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Most of the time I live a fully anonymous life, which is the way I like it.
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Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.
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But it’s not so hard, learning to picture yourself as part of a great chain. One that began long before you, and will go on long after.
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What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is the unconscious choices I make.
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The rich are different only because people treat them as if they were.
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A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
