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John Shirley

"I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images."

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"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."

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"It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win."

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"Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body."

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"We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from all people. Different people behave differently and that is what makes different people different."

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"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

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"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves."

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"We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel.We hear people saying, thank you for being fair, for being balanced."

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"I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated."

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"Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine."

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"I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill."

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"I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it."

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