Emil Cioran Quotes
We replace God as best we can; for every god is good, provided he perpetuates in eternity our desire for a crucial solitude...
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The good part is if I play a solid round of golf, it will be very hard for the others to beat me. And that's all I'm thinking about.
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A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
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Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this way - I had the same hopes that every literary fiction writer in America has: I wanted the novel to be well-received, critically. As for sales? I didn't want it to disappoint, but I didn't expect it to be a best-seller, either.
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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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I feel like I've got a pretty good presence online through Instagram and Facebook. I just keep it simple.
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Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.
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If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am an artist.
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I think it's really good to get the adrenaline pumping.
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I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.
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I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.
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I've always been aware of my health - when you are having to go on stage and perform, you need to be feeling good - but when I was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, I became really, really conscious of my health.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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Why is partying and having a good time bad?
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The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
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When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
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Me, Billy Crystal and John Goodman hang out non-stop, and all we do is silly voices. We hang out in a little closet and do voices together.
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To be a legend, you generally had to be dead.
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Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
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We replace God as best we can; for every god is good, provided he perpetuates in eternity our desire for a crucial solitude...
