Ethan Gilsdorf Quotes
A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.
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I play as I feel.
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Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
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I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.
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I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
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The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
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The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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You don't see your prison because its bars are invisible.
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I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.
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I'm married now, but back when I had girlfriends, you were always wondering if they liked you, and if you liked them enough. You're together, but the smallest thing could make one of you go 'You know what? This isn't working!'
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What is it that you think about just before you get a condom? Sex!
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You can't just plain die. You got to do it by the book.
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The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
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Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.
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A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt.
