Edward T. Lowe, Jr. Quotes
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
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Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.
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My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
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You want your partner to objectify you.
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The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
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I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.
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A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.
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I don't mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven't really thought about it since then. I don't go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I'm in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don't really think about it very much.
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Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
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Of course I want to have a family, but there's a right time for everything. When my time comes, it will happen.
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We all know we have a prescribed amount of time on Earth. We just don't know how much.
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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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I'm not going to starve just to be thin... I want to enjoy life and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable.
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Investing in people is the single most important thing in the knowledge economy. Traditionally, wealth was defined by land and natural resources. Today the most important resources is between our ears.
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He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
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The real reason for his attitude lay deeper. Essentially, Gloucester and the barons of his party were opposed to peace because they felt war to be their occupation. Behind them were the poorer knights and squires and archers of England, who, unconcerned with rights or wrongs, were 'inclined to war such as had been their livelihood.'
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Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.
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When I go to the garage to pick up my clubs, I clean the spider webs off.
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Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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Life is only error,And death is knowledge.
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A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
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It's a thing of violence, to whom death would be a merciful release.
