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Quotes by Writer
"Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts."
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"Don't let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. raise the rent and kick them out!"
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"When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'"
Man,
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"The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us, watch the world change and decay...but no matter the hardship or the pain or the sorrow we suffer, we choose to continue living. Out of sheer habit, I think."
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"Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it."
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"I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it."
Man,
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"We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity."
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"It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure."
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"Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency."
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"Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team."
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"Movies and television shows based on comic books constitute the worst single genre in the history of filmed entertainment (with the exception of porn)."
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"Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it."
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"When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places."
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"American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going."
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"The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves."
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"A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle."
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"Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law."
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"If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you."
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"There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity."
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"I've always had the sense that my life is run by other people. Except for a few years after Martin died. Those were the toughest years, I was alone with my children, I had to cope by myself. Complete poverty. You won't believe this, but nowadays when I look back, those are my happiest years."
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"If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments."
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"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."
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"We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities."
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"I admire some people for their brilliance and I respect others for their strength. But I am indebted to those who can rekindle my spirit."
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"You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for."
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"These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north."
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"Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting."
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"Don't force it, if there isn't flow let it go."
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"Of course, there were other sorts of literature -- theoretical, self-referencial, lachrymosely autobiographical -- but they were just dry wanks."
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"If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!"
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"A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever."
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"A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence."
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