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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• Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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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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• I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Believe
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  • I Believe

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

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
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  • Sad
  • 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
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  • Man

• Only the young die good.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Good
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  • Young

• 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
  • Work
  • Long
  • High

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

  

  Jack Kevorkian
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  • Helping
  • Patient

• 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
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• What I learned, more than anything, was that you can't have it all balanced perfectly at any one time. When I was young, it was much more balanced toward work. When I had my children, it was much more balanced toward love and family, and I didn't get a lot of work done. So you can't ask of it to be perfectly balanced at any time, but your hope is, before you die, you've somehow had each of those spheres come to life. That's probably more important than success in any one of those spheres alone.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

  

  Beth Henley
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• Out of the 72 kids that I went to high school with, I still talk to 25 of them on a fairly regular basis. Seven of my classmates live in L.A., and five of them are in the entertainment business, and we constantly talk and play fantasy football together.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
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• Just as my fingers on these keys Make music, so the self-same sounds On my spirit make a music, too. Music is feeling, then, not sound; And thus it is that what I feel, Here in this room, desiring you, Thinking of your blue-shadowed silk, Is music.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.

  

  E. M. Forster

• 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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