Paul Fussell Quotes
To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.
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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.
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The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
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Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
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There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
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After I completed the project for BCG, I was offered the position of Director of Marketing for Ozon.ru.
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'The Devil's Dictionary' reads like a collection of great Twitter posts. And as people do with tweets, they can swipe Bierce's best lines and recite them as nearly their own. The reflected glory of reposting.
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Even if a company is taken private, at some stage people want to make it public.
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When you constantly hear people talking about going the distance, going the distance, you can't help but wonder about it. I learned a lesson: next time I will fight my fight without that doubt.
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Every problem that is interesting is also soluble.
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I've interviewed the president in the White House. I'd interviewed major newsmakers and Hollywood actors.
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There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.
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I write and draw from the gut. I often don't know what my stories are about until they're done.
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You have to fit in sometimes to make people comfortable to listen to you.
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To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason.
