Gene Wolfe Quotes

Now I must, I suppose, explain why I have been writing this account. ... I have written to disclose myself to myself, and I am writing now because I will, I know, sometime read what I am now writing and wonder. Perhaps by the time I do, I will have solved the mystery of myself, or perhaps I will no longer care to know the solution.

Gene Wolfe

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• I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Star
  • Religion
  • Belief

• I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Time
  • Party
  • Gossip

• I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.

  

  Yuna
  • Think
  • Always
  • Beginning

• I'm a little angry in life.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
  • Angry
  • Little

• If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • First
  • Short
  • Hear

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• I'm not a one-issue person.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Person

• Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Time
  • Man
  • Influence

• The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Crisis
  • Humanitarian
  • Syrian

• I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Up
  • Women
  • Family

• As a former teacher and someone who has devoted her entire career to children and public schools, I understand the pain and frustration of parents who feel their children are not receiving the education they deserve.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Children
  • Career
  • Parents

• Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Difference
  • Location
  • Mobile

• I sing all the time. But maybe nobody's hearing it, because I'm singing in my car or in my house or whatever. I don't need the roar of the crowd, and I don't need to hear cheers to feel validated.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Time
  • House
  • Singing

• I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Trust

• Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to promote and be the face of the brand. In a weird way, the story was as much the star as any of the actors, so people wanted to hear from us.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • People
  • Writing
  • Job

• You want people to buy you as just about anything. So if they think that you're one thing, it's hard to slip into, you know, all these other things.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Never
  • Moment
  • New York

• I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.

  

  Emma Donoghue
  • Life
  • Writing
  • House

• Most people marry their mother. I married my father.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • People
  • Mother
  • Father

• You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Great
  • Song
  • Crazy

• For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

  

  bell hooks
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Present

• Now I must, I suppose, explain why I have been writing this account. ... I have written to disclose myself to myself, and I am writing now because I will, I know, sometime read what I am now writing and wonder. Perhaps by the time I do, I will have solved the mystery of myself, or perhaps I will no longer care to know the solution.

  

  Gene Wolfe
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Why