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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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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It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
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I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
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There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.
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Money is like poetry because both involve learning to communicate in a compressed language that packs a lot of meaning and consequence into the minimum semantic space.
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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.
