Gene Wolfe Quotes
What little I have learned in the course of a long life, regarding the gods, I have tried to forget.

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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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Stay in your heart.
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All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.
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The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
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Society is unity in diversity.
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Any young man coming of age has a lot to go through. Peter Parker certainly has a lot of responsibility, and without doubt, so does Pippin - his role, his life, and how he is going to perform it. It's all about choices and how we make them.
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What little I have learned in the course of a long life, regarding the gods, I have tried to forget.