Gene Wolfe Quotes
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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'Wet Hot American Summer' was sort of lowbrow genius, you know? But smart in its cultish silliness. It wasn't considered something of great cultural caliber. But like many cult pieces, it sort of became something culturally relevant, which I think is what's so wonderful about it.
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Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
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I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.
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ISIS itself, it draws its central belief system from the Koran and from the writings of the Prophet Muhammad. That is undeniable. And it's a medieval interpretation of it. It is a literal interpretation of it.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
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America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.
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When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
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Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
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Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.
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The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the other people.
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Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.
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I want people to make sense of what I'm talking about.
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We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.
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What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?
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We felt, as a staff, we're going to start Thompson. We feel that he has earned it to this point.
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Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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It is well not to spend one's symbols improvidently.
