Clark Ashton Smith Quotes
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.
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Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
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Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don't do anything themselves, well, it is easy for them to say it's never good enough.
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Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.
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There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.
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I was a Social Science major in college, with an emphasis in secondary education. I took as many courses on the American colonial era and westward expansion as I could. This turned out to be wonderful preparation for writing fantasy novels.
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I had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and there was an envelope in it. The front of the envelope was facing the table, so I didn't know what was in it. I opened it and out spilled all this hair. I turned the envelop over and it says, 'Clipped from President Garfield's head on his deathbed.'
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As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.
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It's always extremities when you are a young black male dealing with law enforcement.
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In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.
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The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
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The Master would frequently assert that holiness was less a matter of what one did than of what one allowed to happen.
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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
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I haven't always known I wanted to act. I wanted to be a farmer, an English professor, or an archaeologist.
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How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass?
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I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.
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Theosophy is that ocean of knowledge which spreads from shore to shore of the evolution of sentient beings; unfathomable in its deepest parts, it gives the greatest minds their fullest scope, yet, shallow enough at its shores, it will not overwhelm the understanding of a child.
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Must beauty blossom, rooted in decay, And night devour its flaming hues alway?
