Peter Straub Quotes
The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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I've never played a character that would sing.
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If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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Do you agree that the European Union should be able to prescribe the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary without the consent of parliament?
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To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: 'Be careful.'
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Succeeding makes us feel good. But beating someone else makes us feel really good. Comparing ourselves to others and coming out on top creates a sense of entitlement. And when we feel entitled, we cheat more because, of course, the rules don't apply to awesome people like us.
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Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
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To me it is a riddle that Knut Wicksell, who for most of his life was a fanatical representative of extreme opinions in the social debate, could present a completely different personality in the scholarly context. During the period when I knew him he was the diffident seeker after scientific truth.
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Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
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'When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.'
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.
