Patrick deWitt Quotes
My interest in words and literature is always changing. And every day of work is different, and it doesn't feel laborious in the way that, say, washing dishes did. I'm quite happy to be doing what I'm doing, and I feel very lucky.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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I'm not politically correct.
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Let us advance science to create a better world for all.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea.
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Science is about unravelling nature.
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I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.
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If I were related to Monet, I don't know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it's too much, the comparison. If I wrote a book and put it out, the comparison to my great-grandfather, the comparison would be hilarious. Every critic, it would be their dream, they'd tear me apart.
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Your kids grow up. I think they more than anything are making me feel as if, you know, you want to squeeze everything you got every single day out of this thing. Because it passes quick.
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An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
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How does he do it? How does he master people without bluster or bullying? How does he make people fear him or love him, not in spite of his ruthlessness but because of it?
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My interest in words and literature is always changing. And every day of work is different, and it doesn't feel laborious in the way that, say, washing dishes did. I'm quite happy to be doing what I'm doing, and I feel very lucky.
