Patrick deWitt Quotes
I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.
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My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.
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I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.
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When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
