Steven Erikson Quotes
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
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I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.
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Hold me close and tell me how you feel Tell me love is real.
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Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat.
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Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us.
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For Arizonans, there's a particular connection because it was the U.S.S. Arizona and so on December 7, we have a lot of commemorations on the day of the attack, and it's a big part of Arizona life.
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I loved playing for him. He brought me here to Brockton three years ago and I appreciate that he did. I hope things work out for him.
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Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.
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Perhaps there were a few million dollars that might have been stolen in the process. But how many millions of dollars have we saved because we have re-established the stability of Canada by keeping it a united country?
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A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.
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You can do a lot more with weapons and politeness than just politeness.
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When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
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Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason.
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If you’ve achieved complete ass-out shamelessness, however, you can dispense with virtue quite easily. It’s really very liberating, and crucial to great wealth in a free market.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue - don’t you realize that?
