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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In a certain state it is indecent to live longer.
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Responsibility is something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success. Responsibility to the order of Being, where, and only where, they will be properly judged.
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What is ugly about life is that it so often only provides uneasy half solutions that are so seldom pure and tragic ones.
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Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
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I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.
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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.
