Joshua Slocum Quotes
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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
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I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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They can say I have an opinion about something.
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I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.
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Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
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I blog because I have something to say.
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If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"
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I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
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Just say no to drugs!
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So I would say Reagan was the best, and certainly Clinton the worst.
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It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not.
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When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
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The hardest portion of English, I must say it: Idioms.
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With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.
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I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.
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I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing.
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There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
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The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.
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And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.
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I think what scares people about not being normal is being ostracized for not being like other people. And that's hurtful when that happens.
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To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.
