Joe Haldeman Quotes
I think any writer keeps going back to some basic theme. Sometimes it's autobiographical. I guess it usually is.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.
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That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.
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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
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An important notion in Indian political thought that is of great value to Hungary is the idea of peaceful development.
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I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
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I love the concept of community energy.
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What I really honestly want is just to be working steadily... I would love to just be on a great TV show and have it run for awhile.
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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
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My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.
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Everything about the music industry takes away from you as an artist. They're always wondering what the next thing is: 'What do you have?' It's a very introverted process.
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My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I'd inherited his care for money. Sadly, I've grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.
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I have failed at times, but I never stopped trying.
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Only Ponzi schemes should depend on confidence. Governments should never need to 'restore confidence.' Cascading rumours are a product of complex systems. Governments cannot stop the rumours. Simply, we need to be in a position to shrug off rumours, be robust in the face of them.
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A sort of anteneurosis of what I will be when I will not longer be freezes my body and soul. A kind of remembrance of my future death makes me shudder from the inside.
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What is this thing between women, like men are a joke that women all told each other long ago but men never get it.
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I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent?
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Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.
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We're very aware that you cannot please everybody and that there's going to be backlash. There will always be backlash.
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When you meet people you've interacted with on social media, they are not like they are on social media.
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It's rewarding to be able to change people's perceptions of reality, ... They just see their environment in a different way. They have a kind of different-colored glasses that they can see their world in. To me, that's really cool - when games can change you.
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I think any writer keeps going back to some basic theme. Sometimes it's autobiographical. I guess it usually is.
