Doe Quotes
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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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He who does not live in the way of his beliefs starts to believe in the way he lives.
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A man does not truly understand his limitations until he has tested them.
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If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.
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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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Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.
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I'm just being who I am and expressing myself as everyone else does.
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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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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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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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Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually 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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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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If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.
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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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Is every moment of our lives built into us before we're born? If it is, does it make us less responsible for the things we do, or is the responsibility built in too?
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Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.
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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 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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Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.
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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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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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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.
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Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
