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 have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.
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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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I love improvisation. It's quite exciting.
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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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We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.
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To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.'
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Computers intimidate me.
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There's a lot of pressure to look good, have the gun, know what you're doing and be one of the boys. I was like, "I don't want to be one of the boys. I want to be a doctor. I want to be cerebral. I want to sit back and just use something else. I don't want to do the stunts. Let the boys do that. I'm just going to be the doctor who's about taking care of other people."
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It is well not to spend one's symbols improvidently.
