Wendell Berry Quotes
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Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.
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The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.
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Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I'd ever had. And it was also the most miserable I've ever been. When those things collided, I realised something was off. That's when I started poking around to figure out what was wrong.
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I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.
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All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
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By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
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Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.'
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Every commodity is compelled to chose some other commodity for its equivalent.
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When you go to bed, don't leave bread or milk on the table: it attracts the dead.
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We begin by stating that religion is unbelief. It is a concern, indeed, we must say that it is the one great concern, of godless man...
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To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.
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We will watch very carefully what is happening in the economy and adjust policies appropriate.
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Wu-Tang is for the children.
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The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.
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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
