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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A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
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After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned me but a noble man of adventure who had no choice.
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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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Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear.
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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
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Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.
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It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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How do we navigate and process painful biases and conflicting emotions and press on to be sacrificial and suffer in the struggle? And what do we do with images and depictions that, known or unknown to those perpetuating them, may contribute to the impediment of human progress?
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Each culture has some knowledge. That's why I studied with Saj Dev, an Indian flute player. That's why I studied Stockhausen's music. The pygmies' music of the rain forest is very rich music. So the knowledge is out there. And I also believe one should seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave. With that kind of inquisitiveness, one discovers things that were unknown before.
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If you truly love someone, don't waste your time finding reasons to hate them. Spend it remembering why you love them in the first place.
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Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
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Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart.
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I'm not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.
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Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown.
