Gene Wolfe Quotes

The most trivial skirmish is not trivial to those who die in it, and so should not be trivial in any ultimate sense to us.

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• Many incredible artists die before they were famous.

  

  Yoko Ono
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• I will keep painting until I die.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
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• People die because they find living too painful.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
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• Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.

  

  Orson Welles
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• There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.

  

  Natasha Leggero
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• When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Culture
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• To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
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  • Animals

• You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Up
  • Important
  • Nature

• To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

  

  W. H. Auden
  • World
  • Why
  • Man

• Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

  

  Daniel Burnham
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• Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Me
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  • Wine

• I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Die
  • Helping
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• An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Children
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• We like lists because we don't want to die.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.

  

  Parker Palmer
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• If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

  

  Malcolm X
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• There is only one dream worth having...to live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead.

  

  Arundhati Roy
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  • Dream
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• I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.

  

  James D. Watson
  • Great
  • Parents
  • Fear

• For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and necessary to the common weal, has no assurance that it will sustain him while he stands ready to practice it, or keep him out of the poorhouse when illness or age makes him idle.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Country
  • Age
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• I didn't take writing seriously at first - I didn't think I could do it. When I did, I fell in love with it. But writing is very lonely.

  

  Daniel Kaluuya
  • Writing
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• As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.'

  

  Jeffrey Tambor

• The most trivial skirmish is not trivial to those who die in it, and so should not be trivial in any ultimate sense to us.

  

  Gene Wolfe
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