Charles Olson Quotes
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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I never do anything to my hair. I just wash it. It tends to get dry, so I just try to put good, natural oils in it. I do a deep conditioning mask, which is quite good.
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I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks.
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Everyone is your friend if you say yes, but say no and watch how they react. It's been a huge life lesson for me.
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I make music because I like making music.
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I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.
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The Chanel woman? I don't even need to see; I smell her from round the corner.
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The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.
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Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.
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I have a responsibility as a potential role model that I take very seriously.
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Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!
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I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
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Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.
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Because the traditional mode of dress for Muslim women is so distinct - the headcovering, which is not there for guys - women carry a greater burden of representation than Muslim men do in non-Muslim societies.
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To convince any man against his will is hard, but to please him against his will is justly pronounced by Dryden to be above the reach of human abilities.
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The intellectual tension that seems to work its way through this society almost like fat through meat is the tension between scientific reductionism and the deeply felt intuition of most people that there is a spiritual dimension, or a hidden dimension, or a transcendental dimension.
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After Year 12, I went to Vancouver for my gap year and met an agent who told me to lose 25 kg.
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I mean, accidents happen. You learn from them and you try to make sure they don't happen again.
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What does not change / is the will to change
