Emil Cioran Quotes
Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.
Quotes to Explore
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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Any time you can get a muscle car back, it's a good thing.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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Everything I publish is for my readers.
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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.
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I will say this: I've had more pro-life bills, I believe, I ruled unconstitutional - but I tried - than the entire total membership of Congress together.
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Just breathe. Sometimes you're only a few breaths away from feeling better.
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This is a show I've always wanted to do. I wanted to do this 15 years ago. We lived in San Diego and my church group there was going to get to do it and I had everything ready to go, but they didn't get the rights. They had to change everything at the last minute, and I've been holding on to the script and director's book since then.
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A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.
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Something may have happened before, and yet this thing that happened just after may be so important that you don't even know about the thing that happened before and when you tell your story to yourself, or to someone else, it's going to be told not on the basis necessarily of the time course, but rather on the basis of how it was valued by you.
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My career was obviously cut shorter than I wanted it to be.
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I don’t know what to tell you, Perry. Life’s hard. Love’s harder
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All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.
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I love Death because he breaks the human pattern and frees us from pleasures too prolonged as well as from the pains of this world. It is pleasant, too, to remember that Death lies in our hands; he must come if we call him. ... I think if there were no death, life would be more than flesh and blood could bear.
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A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.
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If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain.
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Time be thine, And thy best graces spend it at thy will.
