Jack Vance Quotes
'I think that I will not answer that question,' he said at last. 'I would create as many false images as there were ears to hear me.''Half as many,' Clissum pointed out delicately.
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
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Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
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You are pooped and demoralized. Why wouldn't you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.
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The question for politicians here is fundamental: You can read the polls, or you can change the polls. Stand up on the things you believe in.
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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'I think that I will not answer that question,' he said at last. 'I would create as many false images as there were ears to hear me.''Half as many,' Clissum pointed out delicately.
