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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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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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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Falling asleep is like landing a plane. It takes time. You've got to sort of gradually descend. I think one of the problems with insufficient sleep is people are not very good at predicting how poorly they are doing when they are under-slept.
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Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.
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Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos.
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Must beauty blossom, rooted in decay, And night devour its flaming hues alway?
