C. S. Lewis Quotes
The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing all personal privacy and independence. Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
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Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
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If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems.
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.
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I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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There are many issues in the global economy in general and in the western economy as well: population ageing, drop in labour productivity growth rates. This is obvious. The overall demographic situation is very complicated.
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We all have bad days and bad workouts, when running gets ugly, when split times seem slow, when you wonder why you started. It will pass.
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'Aren’t you even curious?' he asked. 'A million worlds out there with more wonders than I could tell you in a million years, and you don’t even want to ask a question?'
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Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?'
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Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
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The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing all personal privacy and independence. Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?
