Charles Stross Quotes
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When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
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In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
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Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.
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Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.
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I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
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Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
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For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
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I don't like clothes. I don't especially like cars. I have a very nice house. I get sick on a boat.
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Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
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I am my own mentor. I like to listen to myself to improve.
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The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
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I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive.
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I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes...
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'I think I've broken three (tha-ree) cameras today!' -Rolling Stone photo shoot
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O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.
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As a composer, Dylan now fits comfortably alongside George Gershwin or Irving Berlin, though he grumpily refuses to wear any man's collar.
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L. Ram Saran Das was sentenced to death in 1915, and the sentence was later commuted to life transportation. Today myself, sitting in the condemned cell, I can let the readers know as authoritatively that the life-imprisonment is comparatively a far harder lot than that of death.
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We're the acceptable edge of the unacceptable stuff.
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The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and is capable of taking them in, and a vast majority that finds them painful, and is thus arrayed against them, and against all who have traffic with them.
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I do love that witches haven't really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.
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Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.
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Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.
