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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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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In 1848, during his term in Congress, he advocated General Taylor's nomination for the presidency, in opposition to all others, and also took an active part for his election after his nomination...
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Alternate translation: Come brethren, if you have a mind to be ingrafted in the vine, It is a pity to see you lopped off in this manner From the stock. Reckon up the prelates in the very see of Peter; And in that order of fathers see which has succeeded which. This is the rock over which the proud gates of hell prevail not.
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Do not think your single vote does not matter much. The rain that refreshes the parched ground is made up of single drops.
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Women overwhelmingly support conservative policies.
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If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.
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I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.
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It is well not to spend one's symbols improvidently.
