Elijah Quotes
Let's have the type of night where it's 5 a.m. and one of us has definitely punched someone who's been on a Disney Channel show.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
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Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.
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Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
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After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
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I like - I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that.
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I'm actually a hippy in real life. I had three dreadlocks on the back of my head once. They were spawning.
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Communication services need interoperability to succeed - and Loopt is the first such service since SMS that is available across all major U.S. wireless carriers.
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They say that all the Cats whose wicked deeds are widely known (I might mention Mungojerrie, I might mention Griddlebone) Are nothing more than agents for the Cat who all the time Just controls their operations: the Napoleon of Crime!
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Est deus in nobis, et sunt commercia caeli:Sedibus aetheriis spiritus ille venit.
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People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.
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I have attempted to write the following account of myself, as if I were a dead man in another world looking back at my own life. Nor have I found this difficult, for life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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Barbados: 'A proper bum island this Barbados....It's a unique sort of scenery, very ugly, & I didn't take much to the coloured population, who are revolting.' (26-27 March 1920)
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And all at once I lost my breathAnd all at once was scared to deathFor all at once I owned the earth and sky.Now I've met Miss JonesWe'll keep on meeting till we die,Yes, Miss Jones and I.
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It suddenly struck me - I'm 70 years old. I wonder if I could possibly end my life the way I started it: doing the most joyful thing I ever did, which is to sing.
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I've been through natural disasters. I lived down in Miami and was down there for Hurricane Andrew which was a Category 5. There were members of my family that thought they were going to die. Everyone was in the bathtub.
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There's a fraudulent root element of comedy in that we say things night after night as though they are rolling effortlessly from the brain and off the tongue, when in fact they are crafted over weeks and months and years.
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You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?” Does that ever make you anxious?
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Your attitude towards problems, difficulties, and adversities is the most important factor in overcoming them.
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The listeners who buy books after a reading multiply that reading; the author who realizes that he or she may be writing on a blank page but is at least not speaking to a blank wall may be encouraged by the experience, and write more.
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Let's have the type of night where it's 5 a.m. and one of us has definitely punched someone who's been on a Disney Channel show.
