Damon Galgut Quotes
It's been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying.

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Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
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I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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I liked to play dress-up.
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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
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I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
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Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.
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I don't subscribe to the thinking that being typecast is a bad thing.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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Being a young woman is difficult enough, but add to that the pressures of Hollywood's spotlight, and you have a lot to navigate.
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Our own time, and by this I mean the last two or three generations, including our own, can be summed up in a way that brings into unity an immense number of details by saying of it that it is a time in which the search for the supreme truth has been a search in reality or through reality or even a search for some supremely acceptable fiction.
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If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.
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Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
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Cosplayers love Disney princesses. We all grew up with them. We identify with one or more princesses.
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It's been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying.