Peter Carey Quotes
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.
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In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.
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The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
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Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
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I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead. They said all I was good for was playing Indians.
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Some set out, like Crusaders of old, with a glorious equipment of hope and enthusiasm and get broken by the way, wanting patience with each other and the world.
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Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
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Australia is my lens. I cannot see the world any other way.
