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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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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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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The president of a TV network generously agreed to take his company's aptitude test, a test required of all the personnel. He did badly. As a result he was in a sullen mood for the rest of the day. When he got home that night, his wife asked why he looked so grouchy. I took the company's aptitude test this morning. What did it show? asked the wife. It showed, boomed the executive, that such tests are idiotic. That's what it showed.
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It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such as water to drink and facilities for healthcare.
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We work with broken families and broken people who've lost hope and are helpless. If people oppose my work, launch personal attacks, we know that we are on the right path. One colleague was shot, another was beaten to death. I've injuries all over my body. We work against a social evil. If this evil isn't reacting it means we aren't a threat.
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And through it all, calm and impassive, leaning on his elbow and gazing down, Wolf Larsen seemed lost in a great curiosity. This wild stirring of yeasty life, this terrific revolt and defiance of matter that moved, perplexed and interested him.
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When we face problems with compassion, sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better.
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Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost.
