Patrick deWitt Quotes
Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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I always drive like a madman.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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Bling is good.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Competition like that seen between Blue Origin and SpaceX is key to rapid progress in space.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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Any representation of a god is ultimately a lie, Silk explained. It may be a convenient lie, and it may even be a reverent one; but it's ultimately false. ... Neither image would be more nearly true than the other, or more true than any other-merely more appropriate.
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True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.
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It is perilous to separate thinking rightly from acting rightly. He is already half false who speculates on truth and does not do it. Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action - not a thought. And the penalty paid by him who speculates on truth, is that by degrees the very truth he holds becomes a falsehood.
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Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar.
