Rick Moody Quotes
Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
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My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
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I still can't believe that I went on 'The Colbert Report' myself; for the appearance I wore a lot of makeup, my hair was curled like a poodle's, and I could barely breathe in my Spanx undergarments. But, hey - an authoress has to lean in, right?
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McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.
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If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've got this problem with nostalgia.
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The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.
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The public psychology of going into debt for gain passes through several more or less distinct phases: (a) the lure of big prospective dividends or gains in income in the remote future; (b) the hope of selling at a profit, and realizing a capital gain in the immediate future; (c) the vogue of reckless promotions, taking advantage of the habituation of the public to great expectations; (d) the development of downright fraud, imposing on a public which had grown credulous and gullible.
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You must have dreams and goals if you are ever going to achieve anything in this world.
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History is merely gossip.
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Obviously, I didn't think, and nobody else did, that the Iraqis were going to take ALL of Kuwait .
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The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.
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Do you ever wonder what happens to the words that we send Do they bend, do they break from the flight that they take And come back together again with a whole new meaning In a brand new sense, completely unrelated to the one I sent ((Did You Get My Message?))
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In the words of Michael Jackson: I'm a lover, not a fighter.
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Belts are immaterial. What's material to me is who have you fought, how many rounds have you fought, how many fights have you fought.
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Dorothy Day, of blessed memory, did not like to be called (as she often was, for good reason) a saint, because it usually meant that she was not being taken seriously. She heard it as an accusation — a device ostensibly distinguishing her from ordinary people so as to simultaneously discount her words and deeds while exempting others from moral responsibility to speak and act.
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The Javanese Anthropopithecus, which in its skull is more human than any other known anthropoid ape, already had an upright, erect posture, which has always been considered to be the exclusive privilege of humans.
