Joseph Kanon Quotes
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
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When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.
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I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.
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Learn how to heal yourself and stop fucking with them hospitals
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It is a fact that Mussolini entered the scene of world politics as an ally of the democracies, while Lenin entered it as a virtual ally of imperial Germany.
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Mummy, Bea and I call ourselves 'the Tripod' - they are my best friends in the world.
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We learn so much about the world by what we take in through movies and TV and books - we learn who's worthy of having their story told.
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If you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy.
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I think, for any writer, when you write, you just write.
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I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.
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I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.
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A rotten apple in the Guardian Angels stigmatizes us all over the world.
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I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life.
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When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in spite of their wealth and position. When the intellectually brilliant, who should be reserved, instead show off, they are ignorant and foolish in their weakness in spite of their brilliance.
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Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.
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A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.
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Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.
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Reality itself become something random, inexplicable.
