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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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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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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You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
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I remember breaking the news to both my parents that I wanted to be a director, and they both looked very doubtful. They didn't know what a closet Hindi film buff I was. I used to dance to old Hindi films songs on the sly, so my decision to be a part of Hindi cinema was shocking even for my parents.
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My parents were the exact opposite of stage parents. They did everything in their power to keep it from happening. But it was going to happen no matter what. I was like, 'Thanks for raising me, but I'm going to take it from here.'
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Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs.
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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.
