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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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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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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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?
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Because He freely owned my guilt I may freely own my sin. Guilty as charged, and yet, not guilty at all.
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There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good.
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I don't agree with beauty contests. I did it one time. It wasn't embarrassing being Wonder Woman; it was embarrassing walking around on stage in a bikini. It was ridiculous, stupid, and humiliating.
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I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.
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I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.
