Peter Straub Quotes
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.
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Best Buy is just too Western! They do not stock enough Chinese brands, and Chinese people do not want to buy foreign brands.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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But whatever the POV, and the difficulty of forcing the action into a particular frame, stay within it.
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Sometimes it's important just to allow myself to feel whatever it is I am feeling and to be okay with it.
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Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.
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I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.
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I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.
