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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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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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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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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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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In that wide struggle which we call Progress, evil is always the aggressor and the vanquished, and it is right that this should be so, for without its onslaughts and depredations humanity might fall to a fat slumber upon its cornsacks and die snoring.
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Kylie Minogue - she's so great. You'd love her if you met her. Everyone would. In a way I wish everyone could, to see what a person she is. She's so sweet and no bull and really funny, man, really funny. The Rolling Stones are like a weight around your neck. All that..'you're not meant to rock after you're 30...you've got to die in a car crash or of a drug overdose.
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We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die.
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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.
