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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
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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.
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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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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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.
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It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
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If somebody wants me to do something I've never done, I can do it more easily because of all of the years of sports I've played.
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I don't believe in death.
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I do take advantage of, you know, feeling sensual and feeling sexy. And I think that is tremendously empowering and is not diminishing in any way. I fell that any woman who is in control, who is in touch with her femininity and sensuality, is a woman that is empowered.
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You never finish learning.
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I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that taught me I would never be a novelist. I discovered I had no imagination. My short stories were always thinly veiled memoir.
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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.
