David Crabb Quotes
I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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Dead men tell no tales.
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One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.
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That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
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What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
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It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
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You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.
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Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.
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A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
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There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is L.A., obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.
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The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.
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He wasn't completely wrong, poor old Gemistus (let Lord Andronicus and the patriarch suspect him if they like), in wanting us, telling us to become pagan once again.
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A woman in love with herself is magnetic.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish.
