John Burnside Quotes
Our ancestors went to the woods to find fuel; they set snares there for birds and gathered nuts and fungi.
Quotes to Explore
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.
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If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!
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College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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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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We have Sunday morning breakfast before church. I don't do the dishes, but I do cook. I'm the griller.
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I'd made enough money by the time I was 12 to never have to work again.
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I'll always be Chinese first. It probably isn't politically correct to say or something that the majority understands; I can change my shoes, I can swap my passport, but, I'll always have this face.
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‘As a sleuth you are poor. You couldn’t detect a bass-drum in a telephone-booth.’
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All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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When there is no love, not only the life of the people becomes sterile but the life of cities.
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Friendship doesn't have anything to do with shoring up weakness. It has to do with respect and consideration for those you care about. It has to do with wanting to give something back to those you admire.
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Our ancestors went to the woods to find fuel; they set snares there for birds and gathered nuts and fungi.
