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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
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My hair used to be real long, and my parents were encouraged when I cut it. They thought I was going 'straight,' but I was just getting weirder - at least in their eyes. I was getting into the punk thing.
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My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious.
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My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
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My parents always said that I would be a lawyer or pilot or doctor - and I always just thought that's what I would do.
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My parents were out of town and sent me to stay at my grandma's house. That's where I learned how to make pancakes. I served them to all the old ladies who lived on her block. After the meal, they each left a $5 bill next to their plates. I thought, 'Hey, I'm onto something here.'
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Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.
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Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960) -
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
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Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
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Neither creator nor critic can make himself universal by barely taking thought about it. He is what he lives. The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts Into his work. The measure of the critic is the amount of life he finds there.
The Roving Critic (1923) -
Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
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Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.
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No amount of energy will take the place of thought.
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No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.
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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
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No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
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No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
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No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
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