Marcus Valerius Martial Quotes
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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Independence is a very subjective assessment.
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I love India so much. It's sort of the most chaotic but also disciplined place at the same time. Every time I go there, I feel like I'm ready to rock and roll.
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.
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I'd like to get back to my family and friends - believe it or not, I do have some real friends.
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Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
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You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done well, that is just as engaging as the end of the world. A million people dying - we can't process. One person, we can process.
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We woke up one day, and Pakistan had nuclear weapons.
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We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.
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There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
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Tariq: For you, Laila, I'd go all over the world
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Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
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Were't the last drop in the well,As I gasp'd upon the brink,Ere my fainting spirit fell'T is to thee that I would drink.
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I think it's very important to feel beautiful. I think it's very political to feel beautiful, especially if you're Queer, because if you're Queer you have to take on the world every single day of your life, so you have to feel beautiful to survive.
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I know myself pretty well, and I know what I'm good at, but I also recognize when others may be better and so support and empower that.
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I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.
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Dear Mum, I know you're always thereTo help and guide me with all your care,You nursed and fed me and made me strongTo face the world and all its wrong.
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I try to think of the social function of fiction as drawing the individual toward larger social and political questions. But I'm also very comfortable in saying that my novel - any novel - doesn't matter as much as larger questions of how we can see justice done.
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Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
