Oscar Hijuelos Quotes
It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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I think there's a very clear recognition and understanding that the progress of women in business at the very highest decision-making levels is too slow. This is a discussion that's going on in every country around the world, actually.
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The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.
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Some, but much of my money is tied up in Playboy stock.
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There should be a spirit of dialogue. Whenever we see any disagreements, we must think how to solve them on the basis of recognition of oneness of the entire humanity. This is the modern reality.
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I can't speak for everybody, I think, for me, I will not be defined by the lyrics of my song. I am a man who does music. It's like clothes don't make the man, the man makes the clothes. It's, it's like that song don't make me, I make the song.
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It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.
