Bion of Smyrna Quotes
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
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We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.
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I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.
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I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.
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Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to see people singing along while I performed in Pune.
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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The threats to privacy in America – from our own government – seem to never end. Does Congress really think they can just stick an ‘oh-by-the-way’ provision in an obscure piece of legislation directing the FAA to clear the way for 30,000 drones to fly over our neighborhoods, and have no one notice?
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Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, anymore than anything else important in life can be proved.
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I waste energy on anger rather than investing it in hope.
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To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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As yonder tower outstretches to the earthThe dark triangle of its shade aloneWhen the clear day is shining on its top;So, darkness in the pathway of man's lifeIs but the shadow of God's providence,By the great Sun of wisdom cast thereon;And what is dark below is light in heaven.
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Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.
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The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.
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Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom.
