William Gibson Quotes
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
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If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
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Awards are for young people. They just are.
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But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.
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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
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Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.
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Gentlemen of the Convention, your present temper may not mark the healthful pulse of our people. When your enthusiasm has passed, when the emotions of this hour have subsided, we shall find below the storm and passion that calm level of public opinion from which the thoughts of a mighty people are to be measured, and by which final action will be determined.
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The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.
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I would like my art to be about the possibility that each of us has to realize our connectedness with this great Spirit, whatever you want to name it, our inherent Buddha nature, Christ consciousness, primordial reality, the ground of being, God. Whether you want to go for a personal or impersonal perception of Spirit, is up to the individual.
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I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.
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Nothing can relieve the pain. Not crying, laughing, screaming, begging. Nothing can change the past.
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Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.
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The nature of ignorance is to lack deep communication with nature or with the universe. It is to separate, to isolate, to create discrimination and differences, so that finally we cannot communicate as a harmonious whole. These differences we create appear as fighting, anger, hatred, and war.
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Love isn't like a reservoir. You'll never drain it dry. It's much more like a natural spring. The longer and farther it flows, the stronger and deeper and clearer it becomes.
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Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.
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It is wrong to be sorry without ceasing.
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A lot of people don't know what it's like to actually be hungry. I do. I've also slept on the streets.
