Eric Frank Russell Quotes
For months we have been making triumphant retreats before a demoralized enemy who is advancing in utter disorder.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.
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Those who go along get along.
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I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.
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I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.
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When I was a Laker Girl, I only danced for three months. We did not get paid that much money, and I was working two jobs at the time. I thought that it would be a little more fun, but it was quite stressful. It's all about your weight, your hair, having the right hair extensions, what to wear, the kind of shoes you wore.
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I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that's part of football. That's like a firefighter knowing he is going to go into a fire at some point. You know you are going to be put in danger's way, and you accept that risk, and you do it.
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A clown I knew who was retiring from Ringling Brothers gave me his giant shoes, and somebody else made me a clown suit.
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I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.
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Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.
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The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!
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Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.
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As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
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There is no mystery in humans creation. Will performs this miracle. But at least there is no true creation without a secret.
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I just don't like talking about my relationships or anything like that, in any reference.
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I think what really people want is just a few things done really, really well. And if you think about ever day of your life, the things you really appreciate aren't the complicated things. They're the simple things that work just the way you expect them to.
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Interestingly, in Cuba abortion is treated as lightly as getting a mole removed.
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I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.
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We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.
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But also I say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it’s done right, is a kind of holiness.
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For months we have been making triumphant retreats before a demoralized enemy who is advancing in utter disorder.
