Tom Holt (K. J. Parker) Quotes
Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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Isolated and unincorporated, North Gulfport lacked a basic infrastructure: flooding and contaminated drinking water were frequent problems. Although finally incorporated in 1994 - not long after the arrival of the first casino - many of North Gulfport's streets still lack curbs, sidewalks, and gutters.
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We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.
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I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
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In the case of the Analytical Engine, we have undoubtedly to lay out a certain capital of analytical labour in one particular line, but this is in order that the engine may bring us in a much larger return in another line.
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No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.
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This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.
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I hadn't worked for a couple of years so I thought it would be nice to earn some money and pay the bills.
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There comes a point when you're writing a novel when you're in it so deep that the life of the novel becomes more real to you than life itself. You have to write your way out of it; once you're there, it's too late to abandon.
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No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.
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Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.
