Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
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If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'
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Fandom is amazing.
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I gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I'm a winner. And if they don't, I'll open a bookstore.
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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.
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Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we seeOil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.
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Es gibt Fälle, ... wo jeder Trost niederträchtig und Verzweiflung Pflicht ist.
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One of the great truths of life: I did not do it alone. I had help along the way.
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The only place in London where one can forget that it is Sunday.
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Oh, to live on Sugar MountainWith the barkers and the colored balloons,You can't be twenty on Sugar MountainThough you're thinking thatYou're leaving there too soon,You're leaving there too soon.
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Harry Dresden: That's Doctor Smart-ass. I didn't spend eight years in insult college to be called Mister.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.
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Make songs for Death as you would sing to Love -But you will not assuage him. He aloneOf all the gods will take no gifts from men.
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Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.
