Eric Van Lustbader Quotes
The worst your enemy can do is kill you. The worst your enemy can do is betray you. Fear only the indifferent because at their silent consent treachery and death flourish.
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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The tongue, the Chinese say,is like a sharp knife:it killswithout drawing blood.
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My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.
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I hate it when everybody thinks I'm a... what's the word, a marauding mother! It's bigger than that.
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Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.
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We start with strong characters and build the movie from there. That not to say we don't struggle with story - that's the most challenging part.
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Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.
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I have a great foundation, a great training foundation. But it took me a long time to let the training go.
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It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.
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I write in the mornings once the kids have gone to school, taking my laptop and a coffee to a little writer's room in town where I plant noise-cancelling headphones on my head and get to work.
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The Chinese are planning a manned mission to the moon sometime after 2020, and subsequently, to Mars. The U.S. has abandoned that dream.
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Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.
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I think that's what good writing is all about. You go into a genre to talk about other things. Tolkein created a whole world to talk about the world he lived in.
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There's a feeling among white Americans that there's no such thing as racial harmony, no such thing as a positive, productive relationship with people of color.
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.
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Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.
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What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appeared. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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The worst your enemy can do is kill you. The worst your enemy can do is betray you. Fear only the indifferent because at their silent consent treachery and death flourish.
