Eudora Welty Quotes
People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make.
Quotes to Explore
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Think and grow rich.
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I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
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Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.
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I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
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I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
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The ideals of liberalism have been divorced from any realities of modern social structure that might serve as the means of their realization. ... The detachment of liberalism from the facts of a going society make it an excellent mask for those who do not, cannot, or will not do what would have to be done to realize its ideals.
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The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.
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I pushed against doing a podcast for so long. I'm a very late comer to the podcast game. But you're responsibility as a comedian is to get your viewpoints out into the world, and we have a lot more avenues to do that. So it's a lot more opportunity, but really have to work all the time.
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I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book.
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Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened.
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It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.
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Science is practical philosophy.
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Happiness comes in small doses folks. It's a cigarette, or a chocolate chip cookie or a five second orgasm, that's it okay? You cum, you eat the cookie, you smoke the butt, you go to sleep you get up in the morning and go to fucking work okay? That is it, end of fucking list!
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Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?
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Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.
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People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make.
