Gary Gygax Quotes
I think a lot of what I was taught, gathered, and learned is worth keeping. Heritage and 'wisdom' and simply personal family and local history enrich the one able to tap such information. As it is I wish I had garnered more from my grandparents and parents.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
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I am healthy and happy.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.
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I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.
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The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.
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Cotton Mather is one of those classic figures of American history who can't be left out. One has to explain him or explain him away, redeem him or denounce him.
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Throughout my life, I happily deferred to family, companions, children.
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I think a lot of what I was taught, gathered, and learned is worth keeping. Heritage and 'wisdom' and simply personal family and local history enrich the one able to tap such information. As it is I wish I had garnered more from my grandparents and parents.
