Paul Di Filippo Quotes
Blending consensus historical events and personages with imaginary occult forces is a strong recipe for counterfactual storytelling goodness that combines the best of two worlds: resonant history with wild-eyed fantasy.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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If there is inequality, and that equates with colour, then I'm going to deal with it.
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Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.
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I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
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Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.
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The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines.
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Expect nothing more from philosophy than a voice, language and grammar of the instinct for Godliness that lies at its origin, and, essentially, is philosophy itself.
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Mere chance … alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.
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Whenever Granny walks into a room, everyone stands up, stops, and just kind of watches her because, obviously, it's huge when she walks into a room. And I find that incredible. I kind of go, 'Ah.'
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Lost In Space fans are going to get organized, because we'll see them showing up in all the theatres.
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We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute.
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Losing has nothing to do with geography.
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I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.
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Having a strong race lens means you understand racism is threaded through and institutionalized in all of our systems and our very perceptions, threaded through how someone looks at you, treats you, thinks about you and your potential.
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Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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Peace starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.
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Blending consensus historical events and personages with imaginary occult forces is a strong recipe for counterfactual storytelling goodness that combines the best of two worlds: resonant history with wild-eyed fantasy.
