Doe Quotes
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Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.
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I'm just being who I am and expressing myself as everyone else does.
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He who does not live in the way of his beliefs starts to believe in the way he lives.
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Reverb does that thing where you make one sound and it grows to 20 times its original size and fills everything up.
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Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead.
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Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
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The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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How much fame, money and power does a woman have to achieve on her own before you can punch her in the face?
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The point is that only one thing matters in this world, to prepare oneself for death. One can try to be as comfortable as possible until one dies... Because being comfortable does not have any meaning either. It just does not. Everything is only a big meaninglessness that one must bear.
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Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.
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There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly, and does not thrash about.
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Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.
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Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.
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Mum said, "It is the thought that counts." And I said, "I know, which is why I am ringing the authorities right now. Anyone who thinks like she does should be locked up out of harm's way.
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The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden...A belief in invisible cats cannot be logically disproved although it does tell us a good deal about those who hold it.
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To be contemporary actually means to be an artist. [But] I do not feel contemporary in my work. I perceive my work as old-fashioned. It does not have a frame of actuality in our time or locality.
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I don't like to wonder about it-I just like to do it. That's what I mean about the image stuff and all that. There's far too much emphasis being placed on that kind of stuff... the whole emphasis on what does it mean? Everybody has their own particular vision.
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The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.
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If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.
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Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.
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That wasn't me. I'm not a morning person. There's another person inside of me that does all the morning things.
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For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.
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There are a lot of unseen projects. When a project is finished, I often physically, and in my mind, set it aside, intending something to happen with it, something that does or does not always happen. Now, a lot of these are being resurrected for the public.
