Patrick deWitt Quotes
I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
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Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.
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My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.
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I've never seen myself as a fantasy writer - ever.
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I shall honour the Quakers for their noble Effort to abolish Slavery. It is equally calculated to promote moral & political Good.
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I'm unemployed, and I don't believe I'm out of the NFL because I'm gay, but if it was a reason, it can hurt their livelihood, and you don't want to take that chance.
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We opened the first Men's Wearhouse in Houston in August 1973, then a store a year for 10 years in Texas. In the early 1980s I opened a store in the San Francisco Bay Area. Within the year, the Texas economy was in total disarray. We were facing Chapter 11, and if not for the California store, we might not have survived.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
