J. D. Salinger Quotes
But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true poet or painter a seer? Isn't he, actually, the only seer we have on earth? Most apparently not the scientist, most emphatically not the psychiatrist.
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.
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To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.
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I want to see more sports in schools.
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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I think people love to attach themselves to the idea of an overnight success. That may be true about me.
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It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.
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Love has seven names, / Which, as you know, are appropriate to her; / Chain, light, live coal, and fire - / ... dew, living spring, and hell.
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Our mind is full of anger, jealousy and other negative feelings. Yet we do not realize that these are incompatible with inner peace and joy.
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But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true poet or painter a seer? Isn't he, actually, the only seer we have on earth? Most apparently not the scientist, most emphatically not the psychiatrist.
