John Crowley Quotes
I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that has a shape they don't know and can't finally alter.
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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What I always say to people is dress from the feet up. If you don't normally wear colour, try some colour on your feet; it's the place, I think you can have fun and update your outfit.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.
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Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
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I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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...'progress', in poetry at least, comes not so much from digesting the last age as from rejecting it altogether (or, rather, from eating a little and leaving a lot), and...the world’s dialectic is a sort of neo-Hegelian one in which one progresses not by resolving contradictions but by ignoring them.
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Shane looked…pale. Pale and shaken and—how predictable was this?—pissed.
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I'm not going to anticipate the outcome of the discussions. I hope they will be successful.
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The Hillary Clinton foreign policy has cost America thousands of lives and trillions of dollars - and unleashed ISIS across the world. No Secretary of State has been more wrong, more often, and in more places than Hillary Clinton.
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I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that has a shape they don't know and can't finally alter.
