John Kessel Quotes
Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.
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Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
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I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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I think I can change the game.
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I love India.
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The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
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I am a contrarian.
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I do not discriminate about size. I design dresses to accentuate a woman's positives, whether you are a size 0 or a size 3X.
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'Johnny Tremain,' Paul Revere's Ride, today's Tea Partiers - you have to tune all that out to get at the real story.
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I was nervous about meeting Charlotte Rampling, as she's a proper legend, but she is just so sweet.
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Half of life-the interesting half of life-we don't even have a name for.
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If I couldn't do it my way, I'd best stay at home.
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Don't take any shit from anybody!
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I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not. I am, however, quite certain that I am having certain experiences, whether they be those of a dream or those of waking life.
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In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like 'charming' and 'clever' and 'pretty' are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down.
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Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.
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The first and last thing demanded of genius is love of truth.
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For too many years, we, as a country, have suffered from a poverty of aspiration.
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Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.
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Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.
