Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.
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Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.
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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.
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It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
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America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.
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Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
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As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.
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Me and Jesus are cool. I'm cool with all the gods. Gods recognize gods.
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'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours,And ask them what report they bore to heaven.
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Don't worry about not fitting in. The things that make people think you're weird are what makes you you, and therefore your greatest strength.
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It's been cool to catch up, but I think I'm done with my exes. To be honest, I went out with flying colors on the majority of them.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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I get so many requests for interviews. If I talk to everyone, we can't do our job with our customers and work on our software. It would be hard to stay focused.
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I don't dislike my peers because they're still around and remind me of what I'm doing. I never liked them anyway. I never liked U2, the things they've done over the years.
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I think that the perceived downs in my own career come from just managing my time and not feeling that I have enough time for my family or my friends. You could put that in the personal life category but it's all one category because I've got to balance my family.
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A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small.
