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All Quotes Collection
"Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting."
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"My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective."
48
"When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not."
45
"Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true."
Want,
40
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."
46
"Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years."
41
"Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him."
33
"To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another."
39
"To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday."
56
"Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral."
37
"I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral."
32
"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."
33
"These clever, amoral, inventive, destructive men, single-minded, selfish, emotionally cool, coolly attractive. I think I preferred them to the love of Jesus. They were so necessary, and not only to me. Without them we would still be living in mud huts, waiting to invent the wheel."
47
"Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all."
42
"One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then."
44
"The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it."
34
"In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality."
43
"Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy."
225
"I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all."
50
"Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside."
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