C. L. R. James Quotes
The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them.
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There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.
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Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, the use of fossil fuels, electrical appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable.
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I remember the first time I met my wife, Elisa. As a favor to a friend, I had gone to her home to pick up her sister, Frances. Elisa opened the door, and at least for me, it was love at first sight.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.
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The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
