Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
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There are a lot of bad people out there.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
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I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
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Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
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In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale.
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It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.
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The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.
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I've always been a fan of music where you can hear new things each time you listen.
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In school, some of my favorite subjects... I mean, art was my favorite subject. I loved art! I used to go during lunch time to the art room and paint or draw or something.
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I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
