John Allison Quotes
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Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.
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Television was essentially my college.
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If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I've always found it so fascinating.
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Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.
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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
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The prose writer drags meaning along with a rope, the poet makes it stand out and hit you.
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Weather in Afghanistan, 2000 degrees and cloudy. What the fuck am I doing? I'm stuck on the weather channel. AHHH!
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I remember the shock of seeing Ray undressed. He looked as if he had a squirrel hanging there. I had an acorn.
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I ride my bike past the Danish Parliament, and it's very accessible - there's really no security!
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Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?
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Beggars should be no choosers.
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I think everyone assumes that I talk to my parents a lot about writing, but I didn't - they're my parents. We didn't have constant workshops running in my household.
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Starting on February 1, 2010, and running through until May 30, I will be Toronto Public Library's Writer in Residence, working out of the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculation at the Lillian H. Smith branch at College and Spadina.
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The minute you start keeping score, you're destroying the relationship.
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I never set out to be the man who writes a lot of female characters.
