Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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I hate competition.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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We need to get big money out of Washington.
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I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it.
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The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
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The world and life are one. (5.621)
