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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To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.
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I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.
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I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.
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Being pure in my voice has always served me the best. Anytime I've tried to hide my light under a bushel, it's never done me any good.
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Re Annabelle ...she is an old maid already. But the bright-eyed flounce with which she sits down and slides her way to the center of the table in the booth suggests that she is still hopeful, still a player in whatever the game is.
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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.
