Larry Wall Quotes
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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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've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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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'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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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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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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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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People who want to express themselves effectively can learn a lot from the hard-won concision of the copywriter.
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I've always wanted... I wanted to give people joy.
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Any other illness, any other disease that we're faced with, there's sympathy and understanding. We get help for those. With mental illness, our go-to is to categorize them as, 'Oh, they're crazy,' to belittle the problem.
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One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.
