Edward Bunker Quotes
But the human mind, when it reaches the bottom of the abyss, must bounce back or disintegrate entirely.
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Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.
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I never look at a high point in my career. Everyone thinks about the Spinks fight, but that fight only lasted 91 seconds, so it's hard to say it defined my career.
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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.
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Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.
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There was no wind; there was no passing shadow on the deep shade of the night; there was no noise. The city lay behind him, lighted here and there, and starry worlds were hidden by the masonry of spire and roof that hardly made out any shapes against the sky. Dark and lonely distance lay around him everywhere, and the clocks were faintly striking two.
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He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.
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There's too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.
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If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him.
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Sometimes you sacrifice too much. You find yourself out on a limb and not knowing really quite how to get back down the tree. But it’s the space that you’re in because you have taken the risk. I’m not unaware of the sacrifices and, at times, whom your compassion hurts. It’s not all moving in one direction. It’s complicated, as the work is complicated.
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What isn't tried won't work.
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Legendary comic book storyteller Will Eisner put it this way: "Technique is secondary. Technique comes as a result of how you do what you do.
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At this rate, he felt, he might even live to see the day when novelists described their characters by some other device than that of manoeuvring them into examining themselves in mirrors.
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I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me.
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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
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The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.
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But the human mind, when it reaches the bottom of the abyss, must bounce back or disintegrate entirely.
