- Keyboard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Down Quotes
Working the count, and watching things slip.
This page uses "down" across very different contexts — a baseball strategy built on working the count against a hitter's expectations, and a theory of absurdist humor rooted deep in the subconscious. For lighter, forward-looking sayings, try Downside quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the factories that had been the bedrock of many small cities were being shut down, which led me to investigate what I'm calling the 'de-industrial revolution.'
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trust me, I'm going to find out where the money has gone and how it has been spent, and see if we can't get it down there quicker to let that rebuilding start.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to go back and find out where the money is. The money is not getting down there.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a pool of water, and she could dive down into the center of the world.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it will be in the end. There is not much deliberateness about it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sit down and I write what I'm thinking and what I feel - it happens all at once, I never stop writing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
But if I'd flown back, I would probably have lost my leg because of the blood clots. I've got two scars down the side of my leg where they had to cut me open and pull them out.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020