Gary Saul Morson Quotes
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.
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People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
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It is a great mitzvah to be happy always.
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Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.
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When we rely on written records we need to continually ask ourselves what might be missing, what might have been recorded in order to manipulate events and in what direction, and in what ways we are allowing ourselves to assume that objectivity is in any way connected with literacy.
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I'd rather miss one or two games than to come back and pop it and miss four or five.
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To cultivate the faculty of observation must then be the first duty of those who would excel in any scientific pursuit, and to none is this study more necessary than to the student of medicine.
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So that was somewhat of a transition coming in, but it's something that has allowed us to grow as a team and an offense.
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People tend to think I'm insane, and I'm really tired of it.
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I WOULD LIKE, to begin with, to say that though parents, husbands, children, lovers and friends are all very well, they are not dogs. In my day and turn having been each of the above,—except that instead of husbands I was wives,—I know what I am talking about, and am well acquainted with the ups and downs, the daily ups and downs, the sometimes almost hourly ones in the thin-skinned, which seem inevitably to accompany human loves. Dogs are free from these fluctuations. Once they love, they love steadily, unchangingly, till their last breath. That is how I like to be loved. Therefore I will write of dogs.
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Oh, I'm pregnant on 'Girls.'
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I had always seen myself doing theatre, as I don't come from an acting background, so that was my first way into acting, I suppose.
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If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
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All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.
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An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.