- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, it's ironic to me that Christians want to keep the Ten Commandments in our schools, because Christianity has abrogated four of the Ten Commandments. For example, the Sabbath day according to the Ten Commandments is Saturday, not Sunday. And the reason is because God rested, not because Jesus was resurrected.
- Nov 07, 2020
The same independence that got me into trouble in high school got me praise in college.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very tough guy, and I fight hard, and I don't give up. And that makes me friends and that makes me enemies, and I know that.
- Result
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that someone is going to write me, and I'm not going to answer - I was just raised not to do that. We are the result of our upbringing, and my upbringing was very much to meet obligations... You just didn't let things go.
- Makeup
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother, whom I adored, and who partly raised me, loved Liberace, and she watched Liberace every afternoon, and when she watched Liberace, she'd get dressed up and put on makeup because I think she thought if she could see Liberace, Liberace could see her.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anthony Powell taught me to write; he has such brilliant control of the mechanics of the novel.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I discovered is I don't like to repeat lead characters because one of the most pleasurable things in a book to me is learning about the lead.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me put it this way: I don't plan to retire. What would I do, become a brain surgeon? I mean, a brain surgeon can retire and write novels, but a novelist can't retire and do brain surgery - or at least he better not.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd never been in a police state. I didn't know what it was. I knew that it was, in the general way that people know that two and two is four, but it had no emotional value for me until I found myself in the middle of it.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
My theory is that sometimes writers write books because they want to read them, and they aren't there to be read. And I think that was true of me.
- Nov 07, 2020
For me, Anthony Powell is a religion. I read 'A Dance to the Music of Time' every few years.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and movie parties. She put me through private school, Horace Mann, in Riverdale. She sent me to camp so that I would learn to compete. She was a lioness, and I was her cub.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I figured I would always be a candidate for man of the year in the virtue-is-its-own-reward category. What that did was force me to concentrate on the work.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020