Hermann Hesse Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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We all have roadblocks; we all have challenges.
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There's a huge part of me that's thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.
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I have long been impressed with the focus on politics and that focus being... from young people.
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I have a weird and undying love for George Michael. He's the reason why I want to do what I do.
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When I was 19, I took a train from Houston to New York, and I had in my lap the collected works of William Shakespeare. The play I read on that journey was 'Titus Andronicus.'
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We have sent our troops to war without paying for it. Now, we are bringing them home without saying how we are paying for it.
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My parents were so far from the music world that they couldn't conceive how you could make a living. But for me, it was the only solution for the rest of my life.
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I have a great time touring.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
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It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.
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When I started writing 'Luck in the Shadows,' I just wanted to create an adventure story.
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I don't think my parents know what I do.
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I think it's the whole impulse to judge and censor and euphemize, that is the enemy. … What fun, to feel superior to T. S. Eliot. And that's the impulse that I am suspicious of.
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By now you've heard the constant right wing attacks on the elite media and the liberal elite, who may or may not be part of Washington elite, a subset of the East Coast elite, which is overtly influenced by the Hollywood elite. So, basically, unless you're a shit-kicker from Kansas, you're with the terrorists.
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It's a situation where it's tough for Tom and tough for us, ... We think the world of him.
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Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.
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This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world: Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream; Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud, Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream. So is all conditioned existence to be seen.
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Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods.
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A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.
