Caroline Gordon Quotes
It was strange how you could never form any conclusion from what women said. It was not that they did not know what they were talking about, but you never drew the right conclusions.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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I think young generation is always better than last generation. No matter you like it or don't like it. My father said, 'Jack, I'm so good, you'll never be' - but I'm better than him. My father is better than my grandfather. My children will be better than us.
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I'm not a Johnny-come-lately Jew. I've been around. I watch out for the Jews; I watch out for the Catholics.
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No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!
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It is said that we live, move and have our being in God. We find this concept expressed often in the Koran, not in those words of course, but just as beautifully and more tersely... when we realize the meaning of this saying, we are already preparing ourselves for the gift of the power of direct spiritual experience.
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I'm going to stand up for what I need to do, not what everybody else wants me to do.
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I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.
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It was strange how you could never form any conclusion from what women said. It was not that they did not know what they were talking about, but you never drew the right conclusions.
