Ben Lerner Quotes
Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost.
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
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It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.
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There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself.
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
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I hate being too pretty.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
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The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.
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People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.
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My mom is a sculptress.
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Let us go then, you and I,When the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table.
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But the Queen has no such veto; She must sign her own death-warrant if the two Houses unanimously send it up to her.
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Fez gave her a squeeze. 'You’re a genius, Sam-I-Am.' She squirmed away from him uncomfortably. 'It just makes sense, is all.''Sometimes that’s all it takes to be a genius.'
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We’ll rack our brains and either solve your problem or come up come up with new and better ones.
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The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors.
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I think they should take everyone who works for The National Enquirer and the Star, and everyone who works for Us Weekly, and put them all to work looking for terrorists. I think they would find the terrorists. All of them. It would be genius!
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I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.
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Love is everywhere, but if our eyes aren't open to see it, we miss out. Who among us hasn't missed out on love because we were looking for it in one package and it came in another? Our problem is rarely a lack of love so much as a mental block to our awareness of its presence.*
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I'm just really appreciative of the loyal fans in St. Louis who just lost their team. It's not an easy situation to go through. On the other hand, we have to move forward.
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Now, if anything at all can be known to be wrong, it seems to me to be unshakably certain that it would be wrong to make any sentient being suffer eternally for any offence whatever.
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Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost.
