Emil Cioran Quotes
Suicide is a sudden accomplishment, a lightning-like deliverance: it is nirvana by violence.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.
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I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.
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I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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Love is the one wild card.
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I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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I remember speaking to a sheik who came back into the political system in late 2008, laid down his arms. His troops became part of the Sons of Iraq, the so-called Sunni Awakening.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
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I was born free.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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Really, what you should tell a novelist is, 'Keep going until you finish the draft. Don't show it to anyone.'
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My line of vision was such that the creature filled the moon like a fossil. It had gone there, I thought, to live and die, for there, of all places, was its small definition made whole and eternal
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One of the powers of a sit-in is its visibility and potential to mobilize public opinion; the way the protest is reported in the media can have a powerful influence over its eventual success or failure.
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Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.
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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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Suicide is a sudden accomplishment, a lightning-like deliverance: it is nirvana by violence.
