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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'A Tale of Two Gardens'
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Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.
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What is more, let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent, nor am I hiding the signs and wonders that were shown to me by the Lord many years before they happened, he who knew everything, even before the beginning of time.
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It's a dream come true for me to be an idol for those kids. One little moment from my life that I spend with that kid, he might remember that for the rest of his life, that he met me that day when he was 10 years old.
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I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan's work. Like Andy, Ryan's finger is so on the pulse of culture that he's ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar.
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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.
