Thomas Hardy Quotes
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
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I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.
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But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.
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And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.
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All that would remain of me would be the raincoat I’d been wearing, rolled on a bench.
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He had almost yielded, but not quite. He had not consented. It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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Telecom was the golden goose which laid the golden egg. The Supreme Court ensured that the golden goose will never lay golden egg again for a little while.
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For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.
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This gets better, it really does. The odd thing is, I actually think you might be telling the truth. If you were going to lie, you’d at least come up with something that made sense.
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I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.
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I think once you write fiction, you put it out, and it can be interpreted in a variety of ways, some of which are going to be shocking to the writer.
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The suit does not represent the businessman anymore. Nor does the loud shirt represent the rock star. The same man can now wear both.
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A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.
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Man was created to frame the woman.
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The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work.
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Really, to me, a really good evening would be a comedian, followed by a band, followed by a really good DJ.
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My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.
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I work very deliberately, with a plan. But sometimes I come to a point that I planned as the end and it needs softening. Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep - it can't be done abruptly.
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Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another.
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Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.
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The most optimistic thing that's happened is that as a society we're beginning to recognize that there are many voices. When I began, thirty years ago, the idea of one author or the artist as being a solitary creature was really the only idea that there was.
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I was buying old records a lot in my early teenage years and I was mostly drawn toward the artwork even more than the band itself. I loved the way the art set the scene for the music.
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When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
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If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.
