Charles Stross Quotes

'Friendly fascism,' says Sadeq. 'It matters not, whosoever is in charge. I could tell you tales from my parents, of growing up with a revolution. To never harbor self-doubt is poison for the soul, and these aliens want to inflict their certainties upon us.'

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• The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

  

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• It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.

  

  Val Kilmer
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• The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.

  

  Edmund White
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• Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

  

  Sallust
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• The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.

  

  Adam Kluger
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• What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

  

  Edith Evans
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• When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
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• The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
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• Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.

  

  Carl Hagelin
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• Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
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• The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
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• I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Power
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• I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
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• I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
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• Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.

  

  Ted Deutch
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• Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

  

  Harriet Tubman
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• Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
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• To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept.

  

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• People often refer to a creative ability as a 'gift', and, of course, it is, in that, if I had sat down and logically tried to work out who I was and what I should do, I would never have come up with the idea of writing. It was already there, gratis, a given - a gift.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
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• I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

  

  Luke Ford
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• It is not the similarity or dissimilarity of individuals that constitutes a group, but interdependence of fate.

  

  Kurt Lewin
  • Fate

• 'Friendly fascism,' says Sadeq. 'It matters not, whosoever is in charge. I could tell you tales from my parents, of growing up with a revolution. To never harbor self-doubt is poison for the soul, and these aliens want to inflict their certainties upon us.'

  

  Charles Stross
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