Gene Wolfe Quotes
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.
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All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.
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I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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I always try to be true to who I am and just be myself.
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We gave the world dab fever!
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I'm just here for this one purpose, and that's to try and get better each and every day and try and win as much as I can, while I can.
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I was not only twenty-three, but a conspicuously retarded twenty-three.
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Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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Please to blot out gentle hearted, and substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-ey'd, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the Gentleman in question.
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The gods smile on us, my son, or so it is written. It's a wonder they don't laugh aloud.
