Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Quotes
I've heard of many people who claim they'd as soon their children were dead as gay. What it took me a long time to believe is that these people are saying no more than the truth. They even speak for others too delicate to use the cruel words.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.
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After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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If I were to compare the Olympic decathlon to fatherhood, I would say fatherhood is a lot tougher.
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It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.
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People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes; their inner as well as their outer life can be exposed.
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Trump would have been unelectable were it not for the groundwork laid by Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, two liberal heroes.
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them.
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You come back and you don't tell the truth to me, no more.
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Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible.
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I've heard of many people who claim they'd as soon their children were dead as gay. What it took me a long time to believe is that these people are saying no more than the truth. They even speak for others too delicate to use the cruel words.
