- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like Quotes
Quotes on what people like and why.
These quotes explore liking something, or coming around to it later - one describes disliking Jane Austen before eventually appreciating her work, while another reflects on early interest in mathematics over computers. Related browsing includes Know Quotes.
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- Conclusive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction constraining. I like the freedom of fiction, where I get to invent everything, and tidy, conclusive endings are within my control.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
- Image
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- Nov 07, 2020
The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses?
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking colour lights. It's like trying to watch a movie on your phone in the middle of Times Square.
- Gangster
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They'd create little teams to go out and shoot films.
- Saying
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of.
- Nov 07, 2020
Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.
- Nov 07, 2020
Every time there's an institutional issue like impeachment, there's concern from the outside about what will happen.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death tax.
- Nov 07, 2020