Claude Simon Quotes
There is no such thing as a 'real' representation of 'reality.' Except, perhaps, in algebraic formulae.
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.
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There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
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Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.
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I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.
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In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
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Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.
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The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.
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I've been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, and they gave me encouragement, and they gave me a vision. That came from my education.
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I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.
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No philosopher would be willing to accept the idea of philosophy as a way of escape, but might there not be a question of the philosopher being in duty bound to refuse to accept a world, like our real world here, of disorder and crime where the values of the mind and spirit can no longer find a home?
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The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.
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Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.
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There is no such thing as a 'real' representation of 'reality.' Except, perhaps, in algebraic formulae.
