Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.
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Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.
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Convince me, but without convictions. Convictions no longer convince me.
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The truth is I was nicely brought up and taught not to show my rage even though it was building up inside.
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We're doing what we want to do, playing what we want to play, we're looking like we want to look, we're saying what we want to say. In rock that's done a lot, but in country it's not.
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Oh, so they have internet on computers now!
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I hate to ask about the title, because it makes it seem like that is all I've read of the book.
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That faeries have forgotten the Tapestry; that is the greatest tragedy of all. It's the fabric of all creation and it's woven of dreams, the dreams of the Djinn. Dreams are real, Magpie. They're seed and water and sun. They're everything.
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Everybody matters. Everyone just wants to be heard.
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If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.
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Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts.
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It was a show. Everyone played their parts masterfully.
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A willing heart is the first step in finding God's will in our lives. We cannot expect God to force us or to plead with us about the calling in our lives.
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The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people vote to dump freedom every time - the freedom to make your own decisions about health care, education, property rights, and a ton of other stuff.
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The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.
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I didn't start running because somebody asked me to become a runner. Just like I didn't become a novelist because someone asked me to. One day, out of the blue, I wanted to write a novel. And one day, out of the blue, I started to run-simply because I wanted to. I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.
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Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.
