Callimachus Quotes

Here sleeps Saon, of Acanthus, son of Dicon, a holy sleep: say not that the good die.

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• I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.

  

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• We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

  

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• I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

  

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• Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.

  

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• I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.

  

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• I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

  

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• I never say no to an ice cream.

  

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• You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.

  

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• I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

  

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• Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to be a thing that has not gotten through to them. It’s my impression that you could get rid of half of most of these books. These people are not good enough to be this long, but they’re apparently also not good enough to be shorter.

  

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• You are not your cluster of memorized ideas about yourself. Awareness of this dissolves both the cluster and the belief that others can control you. If you have a self-image of being a desirable person, others can control you by flattering it, but can they control if you have no such image?

  

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• As for their healers and their worship of gold books of old lore, there had been tribal stories of this, too, all nonsense, as anything chattered by the ill-informed must be.

  

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• I know some people are like, 'I'm depressed, and I'm a struggling artist,' and that really works for some people, but that doesn't work for me. I have to be really happy, even when I'm writing my depressing songs; I have to come through that stage before I can write.

  

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• In New Order, I played about 95% of the synths. It's not much fun for the other guys in the band when I'm playing my synth parts.

  

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• You appreciate things after you lose them.

  

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• My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed to be the opposite of him. We made up before he died but I vowed to never raise my kids like how he raised me.

  

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• I live in a flat in central London. I do like it there; there's always stuff going on. But I do crave a bit of peace and quiet.

  

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• I'm only competing with myself.

  

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• I catch an old 'Morse' on ITV3. I've never thought I looked particularly like my son. He's taller than me and blond. But when I see Lewis walk into a room with John Thaw, it's like my son has just come onto the screen. That's very strange indeed!

  

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• I was a vegan for two years, and I really enjoyed it. Then, I got to a point in my life at which I wanted to do something else, so now I'm a vegetarian. You should make your diet one that best fits you and how you feel. Listen to your body. The most important thing is to exercise, drink lots of water, and take really good care of yourself.

  

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• For individuals to become fully active in the Church, they generally must experience a spiritual conversion and a social integration.

  

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• Here sleeps Saon, of Acanthus, son of Dicon, a holy sleep: say not that the good die.

  

  Callimachus
  • Good
  • Die
  • Son