Deena Metzger Quotes
Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t like. Wallow in it. Write the opposite of what you always write, think, speak. Do everything against the grain!
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I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.
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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
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Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind.
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Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.
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By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
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The Church did the most when the Church was the least like the world.
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We didn't know each other before [the film "Killing Reagan"], but I just knew we would love each other [with Tim Matheson].
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The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
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We all share the wound of fragmentation. And we can all share in the cure of unification. Healing is the unification of all our forces -- the powers of being, feeling, knowing and seeing.
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Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society.
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...once you fell in love with her, you loved her until the day you died.
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They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.
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There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love.
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I had a foretaste of another, larger kind of knowledge: one I believe human beings will be able to access in ever larger numbers in the future. But conveying that knowledge now is rather like a chimpanzee, becoming a human for a single day to experience all of the wonders of human knowledge, and then returning to one's chimp friends and trying to tell them what it was like knowing several different Romance languages, the calculus, and the immense scale of the universe.
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I couldn't have come close without my teammates' help because the Knicks didn't want me to make 100.
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If politicians can't do it, I want to do it. We have to do it. Artists, put it in paintings. Poets, put it in poems, novels. That's what we have to do. And I think it's so important to save the world.
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I'm not a things person. I'm not one to keep much. I do have a small collection of picks from favorite musicians I got to play with, a collection of mementos. I'm kind of the opposite of a hoarder, as I try to get rid of everything.
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Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t like. Wallow in it. Write the opposite of what you always write, think, speak. Do everything against the grain!
