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 play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.
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I last went to a gym when I was a teenager to make sure I could lift ballerinas.
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I always felt an outsider.
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Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.
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No major entitlement, once it has been implemented, has ever been unwound.
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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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Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.
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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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It shews the anxiety of the great men who influenced the conduct of affairs at that great event, to make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.
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Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
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I liked it so much, I bought the company
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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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My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me.
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I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
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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.
