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.
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I will keep painting until I die.
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People die because they find living too painful.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.
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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.
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When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.
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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.
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
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Only the young die good.
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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.
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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.
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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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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.
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We like lists because we don't want to die.
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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.
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I smiled at him but knew it did not reach my eyes. I smiled because he smiled at me, more reflex than emotion. Inside I was nothing. It was a little like being in shock. Shock is nature's insulation, the thing that shuts you down so you can heal, or sometimes so you can die without hurting, or being afraid...
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You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.
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If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light.
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There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire – poison and antidote.
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It's only funny till someone gets hurt........then it's hilarious...
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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.
