Jonny Diaz Quotes
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I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.
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I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.
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I think if you write about human relationships, you're always exploring the psyche and the soul. I don't separate certain - perhaps more extreme - things that people do from others.
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I got lost in the night, without the light of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me I was born again: I was the owner of my own darkness.
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Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.
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A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now.
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No alternative is open but to take military action.
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But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.
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Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts... it can help deal with modern life, which is increasingly complex.
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Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.
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Summer's lease hath all too short a date.
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Conscience is a Jewish invention.
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I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.
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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
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There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely if well aimed as praise.
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Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
