Jay Parini Quotes
As 'Possession' progresses, it seems less and less like the usual satire about academia and more like something by Jorge Luis Borges.
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One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.
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Thrift shopping is really just an extension of me being that same kid and going into a place that's completely unconventional that has really endless possibilities in terms of outfits that you can put together and really just expressing yourself.
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I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.
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I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.
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Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I try to make sure I get out a few times a month with friends just so I don't forget what it means to be social.
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If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
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I always felt an outsider.
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There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.
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The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.
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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
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Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
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Knowst thou the land where the lemon trees bloom,Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom,Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows,And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose?
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A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father Arrupe gave him a lovely reply. He said, 'A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it.' People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.
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But the line of thought that I'd been chasing for several days was implicit in the ruins of the old Roman Empire, which gradually destroyed itself by substituting the faith in a legion of miraculous words for the strength of armies and the weight of walls.
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Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.
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I will say in a few words why the anarchist doctrine is wrong. The anarchists say that the working class does not need a government: what is needs is to organize production. Government, they say, is a bourgeois invention, a bourgeois machine of compulsion, and the working class does not need to take governmental power. This is wrong from beginning to end.
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Leadership is a position where you want to create the opportunity to inspire people to walk along beside you, not listen to what you say.
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I want to thank all of the L.A. fans. You've never failed me. I live through you.
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A lot of times, I don't feel responsible for the songs myself. But that's my job or my place in life: to keep my search and catch the ideas before they pass me by.
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I've always wanted to be a man for a day.
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We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely.
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In my free time, I love to lay in bed.
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As 'Possession' progresses, it seems less and less like the usual satire about academia and more like something by Jorge Luis Borges.
