Callimachus Quotes

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

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• Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.

  

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

  

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• I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.

  

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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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• To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

  

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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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• I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.

  

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• An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.

  

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  • Die
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• I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

  

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• The Indian government is extraordinarily large, and it is difficult to try and believe that one leader can make all the change. This is a federal system.

  

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  • Believe

• No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there's probably a reason for it. Don't forget, I wrote most of those songs, music and lyrics.

  

  Eric Reed Boucher
  • Music
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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