Clark Ashton Smith Quotes
I was with the first Venusian expedition, under the leadership of Admiral Carfax, in 1977.
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I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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I have about 4 million Lego bricks. And then a few million in storage in case something comes up. I still pay for them. I buy my bricks just like everyone else. It's by far my biggest capital expense.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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When I wrote my first book, I was too scared to find out how people got books published. I was convinced that you needed some sort of magical potion that I didn't have.
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I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.
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For me, there's nothing better than curling up in my favorite blanket on a cloudy or rainy day and just knit. Especially in front of the fireplace.
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Acting is a form of confession.
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Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?
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The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me.
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Standing up to Ahmadinejad is not a partisan issue and should never be one.
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Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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'We are not a debating club,' Franklin said. 'Our goal is to get at the truth, where that is possible.'
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If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then.
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There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.
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Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To depart upon any occasion from these rules, in consequence of some flattering speculation of extraordinary gain, is almost always extremely dangerous, and frequently fatal to the banking company which attempts it.
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I don't believe that lack of intelligence and appreciation for lowbrow comedy go hand-in-hand necessarily.
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I was with the first Venusian expedition, under the leadership of Admiral Carfax, in 1977.
