John Lutz Quotes
Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.
Quotes to Explore
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Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
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Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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I wasn't a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in visual arts because I sort of ignored my requirements. I think I was attracted to social anthropology because I liked to travel and was always interested in far-off places.
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What happened was simple, even banal: I became naked, died, lost parts of my flesh and most of my ego along with a few illusions such as a belief in the uniqueness of my personal scrap of consciousness and the cosmic importance therof, and went on from there.
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I'm from Boston, and I get easily overwhelmed in New York, so I go to Boston and stay with my parents for a few months at a time to write, or edit, or just to cry.
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Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.
