Jim Crace Quotes
I never think of the reader. I am curious about things; I need to find out, so off I go.
Jim Crace
Quotes to Explore
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Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.
Edith Schaeffer
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A victim of God may,Through learning adaption,Become a partner of God,A victim of God may,Through forethought and planning,Become a shaper of God.Or a victim of God may,Through shortsightedness and fear,Remain God’s victim,God’s plaything,God’s prey.
Octavia E. Butler
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When I first started out, I was considered a crackpot, he said. The doctors used to say, 'Don't go to that Jack LaLanne, you'll get hemorrhoids, you won't get an erection, you women will look like men, you athletes will get muscle-bound - this is what I had to go through.
Jack LaLanne
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I just remembered that I'm absent minded... wait, I mean I lost my mind, I can't find it.
Eminem
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
Alex Haley
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The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
Manning Marable
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The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts. The creates an odd consonance between
internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. A new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was
there all along, as though thinking were traveling rather than making.
Rebecca Solnit
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When I was a child, I wanted to be important.
Laura Amy Schlitz
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No, I've never competed. I did, however, train in a boxing gym with a good coach beginning in 1993. I'd been writing about the sport for a dozen years by then and wanted to know what boxers endured, what it felt like. I was too old to compete when I started, but I sparred enough to get a taste.
Katherine Dunn
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Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak, tortured-artist moments, but you have to hold on to what's positive.
Mariah Carey
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I never think of the reader. I am curious about things; I need to find out, so off I go.
Jim Crace