Charles Stross Quotes
I wasn’t exaggerating the national suspicion toward strangers. It’s a survival trait on New Dresden; they’ve been breeding for paranoia for centuries.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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I have a lot of friends who do EDM music; they had to tell me what a 'drop' was.
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It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.
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I've always basically done everything that's been offered to me. I'm one of the few actors who enjoy working a lot.
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I always had this New York fantasy of living in a glass high-rise.
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People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.
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People always used to say to me, 'Don't you want your own show? That'd be so cool if you had your own show.' I said, 'You know, it's not gonna happen. So – no.'
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I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.
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When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in.
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All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.
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Oswald Cabal: Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.
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Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.
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I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
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One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right if the head is totally wrong. Only through the bringing together of head and heart-intelligence and goodness-shall man rise to a fulfillment of his true nature.
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I wasn’t exaggerating the national suspicion toward strangers. It’s a survival trait on New Dresden; they’ve been breeding for paranoia for centuries.
