Gene Wolfe Quotes

We never really got married. When we both wanted to we never had the money, somehow. And when we had the money, there was always some kind of quarrel. After a couple of years everybody thought we were married anyway.

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• I was born in Canada for a reason. It was because my parents wanted me to have the freedoms that this country offers.

  

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• I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.

  

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• Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.

  

  Natalie Massenet
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• There is no evidence to show that prohibition has ever had its intended impact. Of course, just as banning beef has reduced beef consumption, banning alcohol will lead to reduced alcohol consumption. But, there appears to be little or no correlation between, say, domestic violence or household impoverishment and prohibition.

  

  Vikram Patel
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• The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
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• I've been fortunate to be working mostly right out of school. Every year, there was a little something, and it kept the confidence going. It's about confidence and the belief.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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• Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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• I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.

  

  Gail Sheehy
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• Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
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• My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
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• As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Money
  • Want
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• Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Single
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• Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.

  

  Garry Trudeau
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• Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
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• I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
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• If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.

  

  Candice Millard
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• Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.

  

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  • Strangers

• The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and pages of scenes that will never make it onto the screen.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
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• Age, like distance lends a double charm.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Age
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• Michael had to pound me a couple of times to convince me not to go stage a rescue." Shane shrugged. "He hits like a girl, for a vampire.

  

  Rachel Caine
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  • Couple

• A different language is a different vision of life.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Life
  • Different
  • Vision

• I love John Waters. You see, I want to be the next Divine.

  

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• You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Money
  • Sunshine
  • Find Out

• We never really got married. When we both wanted to we never had the money, somehow. And when we had the money, there was always some kind of quarrel. After a couple of years everybody thought we were married anyway.

  

  Gene Wolfe
  • Money
  • Couple