K. W. Jeter Quotes
Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised comfort forms the true kernel of our desires.
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.
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Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.
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All you ladies that are selling your souls, you need to put your hooker vibes on hold.
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My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.
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Oh, men and women, pray through; pray through! Do not just begin to pray and pray a little while and throw up your hands and quit; but pray and pray and pray until God bends the heavens and comes down.
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I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.
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We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
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Clothes and manners do not make the...
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About the different levels of skill involved. You have to practice before you become a great masturbator.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things--to help, or at least to do no harm.
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When you win one on this day, they become special ones and they get a special place in the barn. We've been blessed with some good ones.
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Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.
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To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.
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That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.
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Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed.
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Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised comfort forms the true kernel of our desires.
