Ishmael Reed Quotes
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The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.
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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
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And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame.
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I can't be anybody but myself.
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If this is a tribute show to Eddie, then I definitely want to be a part of it, and I know that he would want me to be a part of it also.
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.
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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
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Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.
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I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
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We really try not to spend too much time thinking about what we're supposed to be a punk band, or whatever. We do the exact same thing today that we been doing for years and years and years.
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If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.
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In difficult times, people too often lose the ability to face the future optimistically. They begin to think about their tomorrow's negatively. They forget that the tough times will pass. They concentrate on the problems of today rather than on the opportunities of tomorrow. In so doing, they not only lose the potential of today, they also throw away the beauty of tomorrow.
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We will leap tall couplets in a single bound.
