Donald Ray Pollock Quotes
I'm not sure about 'absolute' happiness, but I am happiest when I go to bed at night knowing that I tried to do my best that day.
Quotes to Explore
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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I think we know how to do Mars.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
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I've only dressed in drag three or four times.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
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I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
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I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart, out of a place where he can do mischief - even by pogroms, if necessary. The Jews are responsible for Bolshevism in Russia, and Germany too. I was far too indulgent with them during my reign, and I bitterly regret the favors I showed the prominent Jewish bankers.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.
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I'm not sure about 'absolute' happiness, but I am happiest when I go to bed at night knowing that I tried to do my best that day.
