Joseph Brodsky Quotes
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Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the other. Look at the number of blue people - 'Avatar,' I'm looking at you. And it is now easier to find people of color in science-fiction literature and media, but the issues of representation are still really, really troubling.
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My Kindle readers have been incredibly faithful fans.
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I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.
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I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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Peace along with freedom and justice are the pillars for attaining both security and stability and will pave the way towards the eradication of oppression, extremism, and terrorism in our world.
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For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
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In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.
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McLaren was a risky project because they were completely new, but we are one team - we win and we lose together.
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There's such a stereotype about men and women. Obviously, people think men are faster and stronger and all these other things, and I don't want people to get sucked into that anymore. I want them to realize that the women are out here and doing just as awesome things. They can be just as great, too.
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Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds.
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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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Doesn't love show its face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?
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I couldn't believe this could be true in the 21st century.
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the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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I want all of my films to be grounded in reality, and I think 'Midnight Special' is the most grounded film I've ever made, in spite of its genre.
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If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
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I had been imprisoned three times and had twice been incarcerated in a madhouse.
