Bill Konigsberg Quotes
In the grand scheme of the universe, that doesn't amount to a parasite on an ant on the butt of an elephant.
Quotes to Explore
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.
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To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.
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Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
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I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in.
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Come! let the burial rite be read - the funeral song be sung! - An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young - A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.
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Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.
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All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.
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Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; … and I have been appointed leader of the Greeks …
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If I could visit dead authors, I'd head right over to E. B. White, though I'm so in awe of him I'd probably just sit at his feet and weep. He's the master of clarity, of understated humor, of palatable political conviction.
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It sounds really cliched, but just be true to who you are.
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To be honest, I can't wait to be a dad. I really hope that that's how the cookie crumbles for me.
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There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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When you play with good players, they will always create chances for the forwards to score.
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You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true artists and not just mere musicians they need to be truthful because the music doesn't come from them it comes from the universe and it's to be shared. At best, we're skilled presenters, and I say that at best.
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With quantum computers you can calculate how many bits are in the universe, how much energy it takes to flip them, how much energy exists, and use that to rule out lots of things about the universe's history. Anything that takes more bit flips couldn't have happened.
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In the grand scheme of the universe, that doesn't amount to a parasite on an ant on the butt of an elephant.
