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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It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
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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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The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.
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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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People always say to me, 'You've really strived to redefine retail.' But the reality is, I wanted to redefine magazines.
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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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When I lived in Nashville, Tanya Tucker and people like that were coming up, and I'm sure that Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette were going, 'What's that noise? That's not country.' It's always been this battle where whoever comes up behind the reigning stars isn't country enough. There really is a lot more crossover now.
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The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.
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For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.
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I used to get a lot of rubber ducks on my birthdays as presents because, you know, I make rubber ducks. But then I get the ugliest ones with a neck, ugly colors, and devil ears. I don't like those.
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To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.
