Gene Wolfe Quotes
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
Hallie Ephron -
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Some of the best things about being a vegetarian include, of course, contributing towards the welfare of animals. Being a vegetarian can also make you a healthier person, and it helps the environment. All of these things make vegetarianism worthwhile. It's really a win-win situation.
Laura Mennell -
What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
Kate Moss -
Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.
Viktor Orban -
I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.
Zadie Smith
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I'm very happy I get to keep working - it's an insanely fortunate thing.
Hank Azaria -
I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.
Ira Glass -
I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
Talulah Riley -
I never go wild with nails.
Abbey Clancy -
I am very grateful for the opportunities I've had and feel I have a duty to repay my good fortune through philanthropic endeavors that expand the reach of human possibility and compassion.
Hansjorg Wyss -
I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.
J. G. Ballard
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My dad and I used to watch 'Ninja Warrior' all the time back when it was in Japan. I would always say, 'I could do that,' kind of joking, but obviously kind of serious.
Kacy Catanzaro -
The national unity government will need to implement a program that brings all Iraqis together, builds a happy future for the people of Iraq, and gets Iraq to stand on its own feet.
Zalmay Khalilzad -
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
Carl Sandburg -
A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!
Ingrid Newkirk -
I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.
Tammy Blanchard
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
Dag Hammarskjold -
Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
Salman Rushdie -
The reason I wrote about women's golf is because I've helped out some with the Kathy Whitworth Cup, a tournament they have in Fort Worth every year where they invite 60 of the best junior golfers in the country and even some foreign players.
Dan Jenkins -
Don't worry about everything and really enjoy the moment.
Aimee Teegarden -
Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
John Ruskin -
Paradoxes explain everything. Since they do, they cannot be explained.
Gene Wolfe