Barry B. Longyear Quotes
Sharks don't kill because they're poor, criminal, insane, or repressed. A shark kills because it's a shark.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
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' workers then have a strong stake in the preservation of the very system that exploits them because the destruction of that system entails the destruction of their savings.'
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You might think that in today's world people are unlikely to start worshipping other gods. But sometimes people do worship 'other gods' without realizing it. False 'gods' are nearly always associated with the worship of three things: material possessions, possessive love, or power.
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Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.
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It is important for us to make a distinction between the spiritual fruit of joy and the cultural concept of happiness. A Christian can have joy in his heart while there is still spiritual depression in his head. The joy that we have sustains us through these dark nights and is not quenched by spiritual depression. The joy of the Christian is one that survives all downturns in life.
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We are worried about pressure being put on inspectors by certain circles in Washington
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I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.
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Every single experience, every single thing that's happened in my life, struggle, obstacle, trials and tribulations, I think they've all molded me to become the character and the person who I am.
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Because I'm stern and scolding [the characters] sometimes, I'm sure I'll get a ton of grief.
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We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.
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Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story.
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Tell me or I'll yell for Mr. and Mrs. Baxter, and you can find out how bex became bex.
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What does the brain matter compared with the heart?
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All in all, this whole period of winter 1919-20 was a single struggle to strengthen confidence in the victorious might of the young movement and raise it to that fanaticism of faith which can move mountains.
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Sharks don't kill because they're poor, criminal, insane, or repressed. A shark kills because it's a shark.
