Gene Wolfe Quotes
'You’re a poet too, aren’t you? And a good liar, I bet.''I was the Autarch of Urth; that required a little lying, if you like. We called it diplomacy.'
Quotes to Explore
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.
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What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.
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Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture, anti-war culture, blue jeans culture. Eventually heavy metal culture, rap culture, electronica - they'll look for it and then market it back to kids at the mall.
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I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach.
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In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.
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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
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I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
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'You’re a poet too, aren’t you? And a good liar, I bet.''I was the Autarch of Urth; that required a little lying, if you like. We called it diplomacy.'
