Charles L. Grant Quotes

Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.

Charles L. Grant

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• Artifice
• Not Life

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• I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.

  

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• My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.

  

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• I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.

  

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• What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

  

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• The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

  

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• China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'

  

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• When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.

  

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• When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

  

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• I believe in breakfast. It's the one meal that my kids usually eat without a fuss, so that's huge. As for myself, I can't function without it, and I see it as a great way to get some healthy greens in, some coffee, and on a good day, maybe even some news of the world via the newspaper.

  

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• Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

  

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• It often takes time for the Israeli government to get things done.

  

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• Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.

  

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• There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.

  

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• There is no doubt ISIS poses a clear, direct threat to the United States, and decisive action is badly needed.

  

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• There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is no honorable fighting for a man who is not ready to forget that he has a head to be battered and a name to be bespattered. Truth wants no champion who is not as ready to be struck as to strike for her.

  

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• Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.

  

  Charles L. Grant
  • Art
  • Definition
  • Artifice