R. A. Lafferty Quotes
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind.
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.
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After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.
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The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.
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On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying economic value of the unit.
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The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
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Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.
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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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The Church is now more like the Scribes and Pharisees than like Christ... What are now called the 'essential doctrines' of the Christian religion he does not even mention.
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God is going to supply a million dollars, somebody is praying right now, right this second, you’re praying for a million dollars and God said, 'I have heard your prayer, I know your need, and I'm going to supply the need that you requested,' it's done, in Jesus' name.
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Most of us suffer from a kind of myopia. We see only the things that fit in with our beliefs about the world.
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And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health in us and no healing humor.
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If more women ate, they would be a lot happier. Let me tell you, I am a lot grumpier when I don't eat.
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In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.
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This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.
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We must kill the Devil afresh every day.
