Claude Simon Quotes
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.
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Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.
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I don't think in terms of legacy or that kind of stuff. I've always thought that'll take care of itself if I did everything right on a day-to-day basis.
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The density of space junk peaks around 620 miles up, in the middle of so-called low-Earth orbit. That's bad, because many weather, scientific, and reconnaissance satellites circle in various low-Earth orbits.
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Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.
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What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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To Anthony life was a struggle against death, that waited at every corner. It was as a concession to his hypochondriacal imagination that he formed the habit of reading in bed - it soothed him. He read until he was tired and often fell asleep with the lights still on.
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My breasts have had a brilliant career. I've just tagged along for the ride.
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The true - the true economy has got to come back into balance with the very biosphere that sustains us. And I think a lot of people just see the green economy as a different way of allowing the corporate agenda to continue to flourish.
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There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which isn't apparent in the other books.
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There's enough dismemberment going on in the world without writing music about it.
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My experience of fiction was, in the beginning, so exploratory. I wasn't sitting down to a desk at Yaddo with a month, thinking I have to have a draft of a novel.
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The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.
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A couple teams will grind the shot clock down. Most of the time coaches do that, it's usually a talent deficit. They can't compete against the better teams.
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Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
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I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model.
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What does not exist must be something, or it would be meaningless to deny its existence; and hence we need the concept of being, as that which belongs even to the non-existent.
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Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
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Life is not only full of sound and fury. It also has butterflies, flowers, art.
