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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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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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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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
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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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If all of a sudden someone said, 'You have five more kids,' I'd be totally OK with it.
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To describe an animal as a physico-chemical system of extreme complexityis no doubt perfectly correct, except that it misses out on the animalness of the animal.
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Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.
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I want people to be inspired! To remember how hard-fought the battle for the vote was, the debt we owe to women who paved the way for this more egalitarian society we live in, how critical it is to use our vote and to be counted.
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We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.
