Gene Wolfe Quotes
What little I have learned in the course of a long life, regarding the gods, I have tried to forget.
Quotes to Explore
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I've never been a partier.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All shall come forth at His bidding. Those who would not move when they heard the church-going bell, shall obey the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God.
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.
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Because I live and work in Washington, D.C., I have a ringside seat at the world capital of The Persuasive Arts, or, as I like to call it, The Opinions Racket.
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The focus of my administration is, if somebody decides to work abroad, then it has to be from choice as opposed to necessity.
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
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Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
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'A long white dress that starts under the breast and travels on interminably down - so their legs are entirely mysterious - they could have one leg or two inside that dress... A Jane Austen woman could be incredibly passionate inside that dress.'
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What little I have learned in the course of a long life, regarding the gods, I have tried to forget.
