Peter Bichsel Quotes
Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.
Quotes to Explore
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you and your destiny. I'm letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don't, I just refuse, as simple as that.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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I can take an opinion, but I don't like when you try and spew hate and contaminate the way other people think. I feel like I'm one of the people that's always made music for the common man. That's why I don't really live my life the way I could. I don't stunt as much as I could stunt, 'cause that's not who my music is for.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.
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I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so.
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Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even than Greek literature.
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I know why jobs go, and I know why they come.
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Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.
