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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I think literary theory satisfied a deep love I have for big, encompassing narratives about the world and how it works - which are usually, in the end, more creative visions unto themselves than illuminating explanations.
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In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East-especially in India – I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening without a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love. The success of love is in the loving – it is not in the result of loving.
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Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.
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This industry's so full of distractions: partying, drinking, sex, money. The priority for me is just to make music that people can connect with. I want to make something fresh that people may not understand
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It is well not to spend one's symbols improvidently.
