Erik Larson Quotes
I was born with the devil in me,' Holmes wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.
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I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
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The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
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I have a weird and undying love for George Michael. He's the reason why I want to do what I do.
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The emphasis on sorcery reflected accusations by the authorities more than it did actual practice. Being threatened, the Church responded by virulent persecution.
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If you like the system as it is, I’m not your guy… If you want a shot at changing it, join me.
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Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
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'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'
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Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.
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Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.
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I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.
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I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
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Everything that seems like a disability with Trump always turns out to be an advantage. If we were in the laboratory, designing the perfect presidential candidate, it’s unlikely we would have produced a tasteless, publicity‐seeking, coarse, billionaire, reality TV star. Ha! Look at how wrong we were. It turns out, that is exactly what we needed.
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I thought I'd become a funeral director when I wasn't going to be an actor. I thought I would be good at helping some people with the grieving process and with trying to get them to talk about and understand who this person was.
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Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
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They remove to York, that cold and godless place, where not even the devil could get warm.
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I was born with the devil in me,' Holmes wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.
