Chris Stein Quotes
In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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New York is my home.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
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When online business first appeared, a lot of operations would take your order and then disappear.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone except the people I report on and the people I work with.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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This was what you did in the '50s: You get married, get a job, put your husband through graduate school, and have two kids - a girl and a boy.
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Science fiction is an extension of science.
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Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others.
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The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.
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The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to realize the trick time is playing, and that unless you do something about it, the passage of time is nothing but the encroachment of the horrible banality of the past on the pure future. The past devours the future like a tape recorder, converting pure possibility into banality. The present is the tape head, the mouth of time. Then where is the mystery and why bother kicking through the ashes? Because there is a clue in the past.
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In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.
