M. John Harrison Quotes
I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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I think I'm like a free spirit.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway.
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Isolated and unincorporated, North Gulfport lacked a basic infrastructure: flooding and contaminated drinking water were frequent problems. Although finally incorporated in 1994 - not long after the arrival of the first casino - many of North Gulfport's streets still lack curbs, sidewalks, and gutters.
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Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
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Too clever is dumb.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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Only the sinner has the right to preach.
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Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.
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My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
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Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes
