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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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 hate being too pretty.
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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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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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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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The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices. God gives us the capacity for choice. We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.
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I am not interested in illustrating my time. A man’s 'time' limits him; it does not truly liberate him. Our age – it is of science – of mechanism – of power and death. I see no point in adding to its mammoth arrogance the compliment of graphic homage.
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Heart of my heart, we cannot die! Love triumphant in flower and tree, Every life that laughs at the sky Tells us nothing can cease to be: One, we are one with the song to-day, One with the clover that scents the world, One with the Unknown, far away, One with the stars, when earth grows old.
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What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
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You only get better by playing.
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I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood.
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You should not actually stay in bed for very long awake, because your brain is this remarkably associative device, and it quickly learns that the bed is about being awake. So you should go to another room - a room that's dim. Just read a book - no screens, no phones - and, only when you're sleepy, return to the bed.
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My goal has always been to be a working actor.
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Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
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When Coltrane died, a void appeared in this music that has not been filled yet. He maintained a forward motion in his work and did not look back.
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I still love music - that's never gonna go away.
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I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.
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Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost.
