William Batchelder Greene Quotes
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Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.
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If we had zero corporate tax in this country, tens of millions of jobs would get created in this country for no other reason.
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I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.
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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.
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Both racism and homophobia come from a sense of the presumed and the unknown.
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You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.
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Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
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However alert we are, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy.
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At my door the Pale Horse standsTo carry me to unknown lands.
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We need to articulate luxury differently. We live in the world of the 'like' culture. As a society, we're consuming so much imagery, it's like gorging on sugar, and the only way to find depth in a 'like' culture is by presenting the unknown.
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I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.
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A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.
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Oh my God, Kennedy Airport - what a mess - all over you with those dopey security questions. 'Did you receive any gifts from any unknown persons?' Buddy, the last thing I got from an unknown person was in the 80's.
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I've been living with that all my life. My name is Michael Jordan, so I'm always being compared to a person of greatness.
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It's my job as President and Congress’s job to maker sure that there’s some rules of the road that people are going to abide by and that we’ve got transparency and accountability that this stuff is being posted and one of the things that we are going to do is put together an independent board on the recovery package…
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It was well to have thus once really lived.
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Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown.
