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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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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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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Moonlight is sculpture.
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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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God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.
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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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I disoriented myself from everything about being a human being and just played and played and played and sang and sang and sang.
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I always think about what's the difference between being tenacious and having an inability to learn from failures. The difference between the homeless guy who wanted to be a great painter and the guy who is a great painter could be anything.
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Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil.
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As a kid, I was only allowed to watch a certain amount of television. But once I was old enough to own my own TV, I would stay up until 4:00 A.M. watching Home Shopping Network night after night. Soft-spoken women talked about the jewelry in very detailed, intricate, precious ways, and I loved it.
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I admire writers such as Elmore Leonard who can nail a character in three or four lines of dialogue, so he doesn't need pages of back story or clumsy exposition.
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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.
