Carleton Young (Carleton Scott Young) Quotes
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
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There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.
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If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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I have no tax breaks or corporate interests to be supported by Barack Obama.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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I had always suspected that one could build an entire house from what went into the landfill, and, sure enough, it's true.
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The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?
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It cannot be too clearly understood that this is not a free country, and it will be an evil day for the legal profession when it is.
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Shoot for the stars. You may not get the stars-but you may get the moon.
