Evan S. Connell Quotes
He remembered enthusiasm, hope, and a kind of jubilation or exultation. Cheerfulness, yes, and joviality, and the brief gratification of sex. Gladness, too, fullness of heart, appreciation, and many other emotions. But not joy. No, that belonged to simpler minds.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.
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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
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It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
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If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
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My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.
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I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.
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Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.
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I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.
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The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.
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The man was either foolish or fearless. Assuming there was a difference.
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He groaned slightly and winced, like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.
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One of the enduring pathologies of human culture is the tendency to raise children to fear and demonize other human beings on the basis of religious faith.
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Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.
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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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Googling yourself is maybe one of the worst things you can do. I did it once, and someone had to talk me off a ledge.
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In some cases they do a good job, and in some cases they don't do a very good job. The commissioner of the WAC just has too much say in what's going on.
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He remembered enthusiasm, hope, and a kind of jubilation or exultation. Cheerfulness, yes, and joviality, and the brief gratification of sex. Gladness, too, fullness of heart, appreciation, and many other emotions. But not joy. No, that belonged to simpler minds.
