T. C. Boyle Quotes
It's true that none of my characters are admirable. But maybe I'm primarily a satirist, and a satirist needs to hold up what's not admirable.
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Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.
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The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
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The American Humanist Association, whose slogan is 'Good without a God,' created the National Day of Reason with the Washington Area Secular Humanists to raise awareness about government threats to religious liberty and up the profile of the non-religious community.
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I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry.
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It's true that none of my characters are admirable. But maybe I'm primarily a satirist, and a satirist needs to hold up what's not admirable.
