Karl Schroeder Quotes
'The great commandment of the narratives is that your life must be meaningful,' said Charon. 'If knowing the truth strips the meaning away, then the truth must be suppressed.'
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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I stay true to myself, my daughter. I just remember where I came from - I remember what I'm coming from - and then I remember why I do what I do.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged poetry and rock-and-roll. Because he did something new.
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What shaped me the most would probably be when my dad passed away. For the rest of my life, I'll kind of feel like he's gonna come home.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.
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'The great commandment of the narratives is that your life must be meaningful,' said Charon. 'If knowing the truth strips the meaning away, then the truth must be suppressed.'
