Emil Cioran Quotes
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
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I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That's all I had, that's all I brought.
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It was all encompassing and so hard for me to do any classes or take up any hobbies - I'd wake up with this gnawing feeling in my stomach that I wasn't doing what I was meant to do.
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I love 'Somebody to Love' by Queen and of course 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is one of my favorites, just because it makes everyone in the room go crazy. Everyone tries to sing along with it, and half the room gets it right and the other half gets it wrong.
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I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.
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I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.
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I don't like when I look too cluttered.
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Never paint except with the three primary colors red, blue, and yellow and their derivatives.
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Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.
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Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.
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One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another, so I said. . . But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
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The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and every one has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.
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Non conosce la pace e non l'estimaChi provato non ha la guerra prima.
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I was raised Catholic, so guilt shackles you from acting like a complete fool all the time.
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For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.
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It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.
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It's not the same without Jerry. It never will be.
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I will not back down to anyone.
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All people live in a fantasy in which they are the main character.
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You can't get more glamorous than you are on 'Dancing with the Stars.'
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.
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There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
