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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Running a marathon is something I've always wanted to do.
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I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.
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Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.
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Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months for 'Shard,' three years for 'When My Name Was Keoko!' The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish.
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You can get good performances in quite sizable roles from people who have never been in front of a camera, people who maybe have never been in front of a movie theater.
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What little I have learned in the course of a long life, regarding the gods, I have tried to forget.
