Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
She was an alcoholic. I didn't blame myself for that. The worst problem in the life of any alcoholic is alcohol.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
Saint Augustine
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
Olivia Wilde
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
Lascelles Abercrombie
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I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
Laura Dern
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The moderns were interested in what was likely to come of such changes and their general tendency: they thought about the thing itself, substantively, in utopian or essential fashion.
Fredric Jameson
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
Yu Chui Yee
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The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal' view of human nature: I cannot believe in a state of original innocence, still less in a profound meaning in it, and I am always minimising the conception and the extent of Sin and the sinfulness of sex.
E. M. Forster
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in the unliterary grammar of life, where the future tense stands first, and the past is formed, not from the indefinite, but from the present indicative, 'to have been' is 'to be'.
Jerome K. Jerome
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You are fully responsible for everything you are, everything you have and everything you become.
Brian Tracy
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She was an alcoholic. I didn't blame myself for that. The worst problem in the life of any alcoholic is alcohol.
Kurt Vonnegut