Rene Daumal Quotes
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there.'
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Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.
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As soon as they're out of your sight, you are out of their mind.
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My father writings stuff was always his personal stuff, like about the day we had to put our dog down, or finding old photographs of his father, or passing a guy he went to boarding school with on a street in New York. Very specific, detailed, descriptive columns that he wrote. I think in a way, it could be argued that my best songs are that way too. They're almost journalistic in that they're very clear, and very specific, and they describe things.
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I didn't see him, but I heard the noise and wondered what was going on. It was great he came by.
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
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Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.
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The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression.
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In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.
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I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!
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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
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I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie forever if I'd only struck him out.
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When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.
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A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.
