Joe R. Lansdale Quotes
The simple fact is, the more people who buy your books, the more are likely to read you. That's what I'd like to see happen.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others.
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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.
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Very few people have actually read Freud, but everyone seems prepared to talk about him in that Woody Allen way. To read Freud is not as much fun.
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I like to laugh at dark things.
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I notice fashion on other people, I always enjoy it when people try and look their best, I've always been taught to try and look my best and that's probably my main influence, I'm not looking to influence fashion anymore than the next guy, but I do try and look my best when I'm out and representing my movies.
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The simple fact is, the more people who buy your books, the more are likely to read you. That's what I'd like to see happen.
