Ben Fountain Quotes
I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life.
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
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Sure, I want to be the best actor in the world. But my life is my family, my son, my friends. I don't know how anyone can find fault with that.
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Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.
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We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.
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It never occurred to me that I could live in California. Now I can't imagine living anywhere else.
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I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life.
