Joe Orton Quotes
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Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
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I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.
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I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography.
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Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's fragrances smell like the air freshener in a taxi.
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The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.
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Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, anymore than anything else important in life can be proved.
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The broad-backed hippopotamusRests on his belly in the mud;Although he seems so firm to usHe is merely flesh and blood.
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There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.
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I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
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There are who separate the eternal light In forms of man and woman, day and night; They cannot bear that God be essence quite.
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when the bank calls: 'Chase Bank, I'm self-employed, how long do you want to stay on the phone?'
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The Truth Apparent, apparent to everyone's eyes who are not blinded by dogmatism, is that men are perhaps weary of liberty. They have a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for … we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty … the Italian people are a race of sheep.
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Lois: Oh, you guys have enough to worry about with your careers and all. You don't need to hear about my problems.Ginger: Are you kidding? I'd much rather hear about your problems than work on my dissertation.Lois: Thank you, Ginger. Considering you'd rather fellate Bill Clinton than work on your dissertation, that's very generous.
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If you don't know what Ad Reinhardt's) paintings are about, you don't know what painting is about after Reinhardt's death in 1967.
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
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I really am a woman at peace.
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Enough is enough... It's time to put country before party and say it together: Never Trump.
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Truscott: I'm no fool.Fay: Your secret is safe with me.
