Walt Whitman Quotes
In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
Quotes to Explore
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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Modesty is my best quality.
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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God is everywhere.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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Typically, I'll wake up at 4:30 in the morning. It's just the continual jet lag residue, just weird sleeping hours.
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I was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with.
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Foundational autonomy asserts instead that in the most fundamental practical sense, I am my own creator, which means that at the core, I am alone.
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If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.
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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
