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 Prophet introduced a system of prayer in that it was interwoven into man's daily work: a prayer in the morning when he arose from his bed; a prayer at lunch time, as an indication that if his body needed a diet, so did his spirit; a prayer in the afternoon when he retired from his daily work; a prayer at sunset and a prayer when going to bed.
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Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.
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Somebody is always reflectively monkeying with some of the parts of an infinite universe - monkeying as distinct from aping.
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If I became lost in the multiverse, exploring infinite parallel dimensions, my only criterion for settling down somewhere would be whether or not I could find you: and once I did, I'd stay there even if it was a world ruled by giant spider-priests, or one where killer robots won the Civil War, or even a world where sandwiches were never invented, because you'd make it the best of all possible worlds anyway, and plus we could get rich off inventing sandwiches.
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There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.
