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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Women are exciting for this one reason - it is the secret of women's allure - women enjoy submission, being bound. This I bring out in the Paradise Island sequences where the girls beg for chains and enjoy wearing them. Because all of this is a universal truth, a fundamental subconscious feeling of normal humans, the children love it. That is why they like Wonder Woman on Paradise Island better than anywhere else.
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The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.
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I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.
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But the human mind, when it reaches the bottom of the abyss, must bounce back or disintegrate entirely.
