Walker Percy Quotes
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Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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I charged Mr. Pitt with having come into office upon unconstitutional grounds, and upon such principles as were disgraceful to himself, disgusting to the country, and such as must necessarily deprive him and his coadjutors of the confidence of that House.
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I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.
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Some people don't like my fiction, because they prefer the nonfiction. But moving around keeps the work fresh for me and, hopefully, for my one or two readers who follow me from book to book!
Colson Whitehead -
There's always pressure on the second album - this one has to be the big one.
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The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.
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Why did God make woman so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?
