Pierce Brown Quotes
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll be a dismantling of the present broadcasting structure, which is far too limited and limiting.
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If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?
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If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
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In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.
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I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.
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My memories are inside me – they're not things or a place – I can take them anywhere.
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The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
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Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
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Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
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I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
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Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
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Among the numerous pleasures of Vienna the hotel evenings are famous. During supper Strauss or Lanner play waltzes...After every waltz they get huge applause; and if they play a Quodlibet, or jumble of opera, song and dance, the hearers are so overjoyed that they don't know what to do with themselves. It shows the corrupt taste of the Viennese public.
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I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?
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If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
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I like the feel of your name on my lips.
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It's always tricky, meeting an author you've admired.
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Tradition is the crown of the tyrant.
