Stephen R. Donaldson (Stephen Reeder Donaldson) Quotes
We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
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I cultivated this fan base that I really didn't really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren't an underplay for me at the time. I'd never done a tour before!
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
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My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies.
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There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand.
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I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.
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Each person's body type is different, and they need to understand that food should be eaten in regular portions.
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I want the world to understand that a Palestinian state means no Israeli state. That's the equation.
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We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I want to understand. And if others understand--in the same sense that I have understood--that gives me a sense of satisfaction, like feeling at home.
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Clearly understand, there isn't any situation that isn't made worse by worry. Worry never solves anything. Worry never prevents anything. Worry never heals anything. Worry serves only one purpose... it makes matters worse.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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If you can't remember the small things, how are you going to remember the big things? The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
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Ours is the job of interpreting the Constitution. And that document isn't some inkblot on which litigants may project their hopes and dreams.
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We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.
