Jess Walter Quotes
I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock, as a shipping agent in New York. Any writer who thinks they should be given patronage because of their gift... you don't have to look too far in history to see that's just not the case.
Quotes to Explore
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The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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It's not like my old self – I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
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I think St. Jude helped me achieve some miracles in my life - that's why I wear the medallion in my left ear and never take it out.
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I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.
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The 'Remnants' EP was the first time I got to really explore myself as a producer, and I got the insane idea of doing it on my own in my future career.
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All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.
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I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.
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Reason is the true creative power, for it produces itself as Infinite Self-consciousness, and its ongoing creation is...world history. As the only power that exists, Spirit can therefore be determined by nothing other than itself, that is, its essence is Freedom...Freedom is the infinite power of Spirit...Freedom, the only End of Spirit, is also the only End of History, and history is nothing other than Spirit's becoming *conscious* of its Freedom, or the becoming of Real, Free, Infinite Self-consciousness.
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I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock, as a shipping agent in New York. Any writer who thinks they should be given patronage because of their gift... you don't have to look too far in history to see that's just not the case.
