L. Neil Smith Quotes
[E]lections amount to little more than choosing between the scum that floats to the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom.

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To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.
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There will be an answer. Let it be.
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All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
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They had two really good teams those two years, but they've got a really good team this year. I'm hoping upstate this time they can really make a difference.
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The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.
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I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month’s time exactly.
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My serve has killed a small dog ... I'm joking, I'm joking! The dog was huge!
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This was the first time we had two ex-Soviet Cosmonauts in Houston. A lot of us, including me, viewed it with some skepticism, because I grew up during the Cold War, so I had been hit with all this propaganda all along that their stuff wasn't that good, it wasn't that safe and we were so much better. What I found out later was that their space stuff was very good and good enough that I was certainly comfortable flying on their equipment. So, it was kind of a revelation of sorts as the years went by and I think it underscores the importance right now of international cooperation.
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If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.
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O Lord...
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I love you between shadow and soul. I love you as the plant that hasn't bloomed yet, and carries hidden within itself the light of flowers. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. Because of you, the dense fragrance that rises from the earth lives in my body, rioting with hunger for the eternity of our victorious kisses.
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Mozart's music is particularly difficult to perform. His admirable clarity exacts absolute cleanness: the slightest mistake in it stands out like black on white. It is music in which all the notes must be heard.
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At most, recognizing that our history was inspired by many tales we now recognize as false should make us alert, ready to call to constantly into question the very tale we believe true, because the criterion of the wisdom of the community is based on constant awareness of the fallibility of our learning.
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I mean another thing I thought was, for example, important about Early One Morning, how long it is and you don't get it all in one.
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The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.
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I try to follow my instinct as a moviegoer and I do the thing I would love to see it at a movie. I'm like everyone, almost, I go to a movie once a week. I like every kind of film if it’s well made. I’m fine. I’m not a specialist fighting for a genre of film. You just have to follow your instinct.
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I think art must be the place where you are protected from the logic of the outside world.
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The rule is you have to dance a little bit in the morning before you leave the house because it changes the way you walk out in the world.