John Shirley Quotes
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.
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May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
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I pass, at length, to the third and perfectly absolute dominion, which we call democracy.
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Now is now. It can never be a long time ago.
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It is the weak man who urges compromise-never the strong man.
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Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations... In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.
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Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life, The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!
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Adia I do believe I failed you.Adia I know I let you down.Don't you know I tried so hardTo love you in my way.It's easy let it go...Adia I'm empty since you left me.Trying to find a way to carry on.I search myself and everyoneTo see where we went wrong.
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It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.
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I don't see categories; I don't see styles - l see them all gelled together. And it was gospel that definitely helped me to do that.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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I won't wear rings and jewelry on the stage because I don't want you looking at my hands. I want you hearing what I'm saying.
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Everyone thinks I have a coffee plantation in Sierra Leone, but I have a cashew crop project. I wrote about a woman who owns a coffee plantation! When you are talking about a woman writer coming from a hot country, there's a complete assumption that she is writing about her own life.
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'I have no idea what that means, Nick,' Paulson said. 'Talk normal human to me.'
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I was a slightly overweight, spiky-fringed, rat's-tailed '80s girl who was just showing up. That's all I've ever really done to get here, just kept showing up. Even when I didn't want to. That's what I do.
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If I don't watch the news in a day, I think the potential for humanity is incredible. But anytime I look at the news, I'm like, 'We're in really big trouble.'
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Good short-story collections, like good record albums, are almost always hit-and-miss affairs - successful if they include three or four great tracks, wildly successful if they have five. And that's as it should be.
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I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.
