Carol Emshwiller Quotes
May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
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I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
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The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.
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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
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Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather.
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Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party Communist Party of China and the downfall of the State People's Republic of China.
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There is a constitutional right for people to own guns, but there's also a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
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Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.
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I was 85 lbs. at my 2000 homecoming dance. But I wanted my collarbones and hip bones to show more. I'd feel my hip bones to make sure they were out. If not, I had more weight to lose. I lost my period until I was 17. I loved that. It meant I wasn't healthy, and I didn't want to be healthy.
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I like to dress up and put on a nice suit for a party or a special event; I do enjoy it, but on a daily basis, I wear stuff that I feel comfortable in, you know?
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Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream.
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I have always told my subordinates that when they commit any mistakes, the blame must be laid on the superior officers.
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Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
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There's more to research than just looking up facts. Eventually, you have to make subjective calls. If you're writing a science fiction novel, there's probably some speculative technology in it. You'll have to decide how to project existing technology forward in a plausible way.
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There is no wrong time to do the right thing.
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A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and a reasonable standard of physical sustenance and comfort, the whole being bedeviled by the belief that there is always something better to be had if only one presses on.
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May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.
