Gene Wolfe Quotes
Very small, child, are the flying days of love, and men and women must catch them when they can, if they are to know love at all.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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I'm blind without my glasses.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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At 18, I wanted to work with the creme de la creme because I thought that was the only way to be successful. But I don't think any A-lister has done as many B-grade films as I have.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.
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I know that anybody who does all this and doesn't have to, everything thinks she's very driven. The truth is, I enjoy it all so! Can't it be that simple? I think it is! I don't feel overworked. I get a constant kick out of being heavily committed. Is that sick or something? God, what would I do sitting still?
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The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used.
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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
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I'd ridden to school with Link every day since kindergarten, when we became best friends after he gave me half his Twinkie on the bus. I only found out later it had fallen on the floor.
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Very small, child, are the flying days of love, and men and women must catch them when they can, if they are to know love at all.
