David Markson Quotes
You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.
Quotes to Explore
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No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
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If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.
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With a horror movie, you don't want to anticipate where things are going to go.
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I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
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But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be;I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
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The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.
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In the long arcade of the bus station footfalls come back like laughter. He marches darkly toward his darkly marching shape in the glass of the depot door. His fetch come up from life's other side like an autoscopic hallucination, Suttree and Antisuttree, hand reaching to the hand.
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I just want to say, that if Jesus were alive, what would he be doing? Well, he would probably be accepting and loving people how they're made. And I always say this and it's really the truth. If being 4'11 was a sin, what would I do? Well, I could wear heels and I could add a wig.
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In Los Angeles, it's always nice out. In New York, it can be nice out or horrifying. You really have no idea what you're going to get on any given day.
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Curvy models are becoming more and more vocal about the isolating nature of the term 'plus-size.' We are calling ourselves what we want to be called - women, with shapes that are our own.
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I want to stay where I am. I'm stoked to be a country artist.
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Only a woman can tell you what it's like to be a woman in a society where men are in charge. When you have one demographic that controls the livelihood of minorities, then you're always going to have abuses of power. So this goes way beyond Hollywood.
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Yes, I would definitely let the 'Queer Eye' - I mean, cameras - follow me for my marriage.
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Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night before.
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I'm much more at home with Daffy Duck than I am with a real person.
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At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.
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Twenty times in the course of my late reading have I been on the point of breaking out, 'This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!!!' But in this exclamation I would have been as fanatical as Bryant or Cleverly. Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.
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Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians, they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100.
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You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.
