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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Never in endless time will ring a sound as sweetly As when a human heart in God is tuned completely.
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Minibars are very appealing, especially when someone else is paying.
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America has been very, very good to me.
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This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'll kill you.
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'Fine casual' means taking the cultural priorities that fine dining, at its best, believes in.
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Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost.
