Black Francis Quotes
This is a particular thing, you know, catholic stories of martyrs who had their head removed and then continued to be miraculous in the last moments of their life.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.
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I've only ever tried to be me.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
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Much of good science - and perhaps all of great science - has its roots in fantasy.
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My son, whoever wishes to keep a secret, must hide from us that he possesses one. Self complaisance over the concealed destroys its concealment.
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'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'
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Weirdly, the past starts to be about something else. It becomes about style in a way that it wasn't about, and I don't mean writing style, but cultural style.
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Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.
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You meet a lot of people and have a lot of experiences, and they color you and stay with you - but I'm not the grieving widow. Life is much more complicated and interesting and full of zigs and zags than that.
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I think a lot of rock stars take themselves too seriously. Then again, if you want to be a ‘star’ you’ve got to appear to take yourself very seriously indeed. I, unfortunately, could never do this for any length of time. Probably because of my upbringing, my feet were planted far too firmly on the ground. I found the rock star thing pretty laughable. I couldn’t take those types seriously. If I had, I would probably have got further along in the business.
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Henry James joyously engaged in the act of writing. A good day's writing gave him a sense of strength, of control over chaos, a victory of order and clarity over the confused battle of existence.
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I don't want to describe either Governor Mitt Romney or the Republicans as stupid, but I will say this - if you look at their platform, the 2012 platform, it looks like it's from another century and maybe even two. It looks like the platform of 1812.
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Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.
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This is a particular thing, you know, catholic stories of martyrs who had their head removed and then continued to be miraculous in the last moments of their life.
