Paul S. Kemp Quotes
Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
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The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're the ones that offer you the opportunity to know the spirit or deity.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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For far too long, virtually every time Americans have been asked to make 'tough choices,' it has resulted in disproportionate harm for hardworking Americans and retirees.
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If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watching it in a theatre? If you watch a TV show on your iPad, is it no longer a TV show? The device and the length are irrelevant; the labels are useless, except perhaps to agents and managers and lawyers, who use these labels to conduct business deals.
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I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.
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When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she’d give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth to a foreign species.
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If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.
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Honestly, if I can plan out a few meals ahead of time, I feel much more organized.
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I'm not sure if a grinning Irish guy who is speechless for 45 seconds is going to make good TV.
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If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
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“Books are precious things and cannot be selected like tinned peas in Tesco.”
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To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.
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When hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world went to the Yukon to look for gold, the original prospectors had already claimed most of it.
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The reader as well as the main character does not view the work from outside. He too is in the labyrinth.
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Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions.
