Larry Wall Quotes
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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I'm not a sun person.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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I thought I would either be an epidemiologist or a 'Price Is Right' model.
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And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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My teens and 20s were spent lying on sheets of tinfoil in the weak English sun, covered in baby oil. In Greece and France I would burn, then turn a dark brown.
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The blood will follow where the knife is driven,The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.
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One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.
