- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think Quotes
Quotes that share what people really think.
Many quotes here open with a direct 'I think,' offering personal beliefs - some lighthearted, like using comedy as a defense, others sobering, including grim predictions about where humanity is headed. A few weigh in on cryptography and the future of communication, a subject also touched on in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
I think you can have a Left that isn't culturally conservative talking about lunch-bucket issues.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know honestly I think there's a Dracula, a Wolf Man, and a Frankenstein's Monster in all of us. They are sides of our own character so that's why I think we can relate to them in terms of a 'I know how that feels' kind of thing.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises.
- Derive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.
- Heartbreaking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technically, a makeup artist's canvas is the face and body. The difference is that my painting of makeup is integrated into the painting of the flesh and not on top of it. I think in some ways it is more difficult to expressively deploy makeup.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think a lot of people realized that piracy is out there, and it's not a Disney-esque or Johnny Depp-esque type of thing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people are worried about my mental health. But as I've said many times, we're stronger than we think we are.
- Just Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't collect books just because other people collect them, and I'm not going to have books in my collection if I think it's badly written.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes when I walk into a gallery and I see someone's work, I think to myself, 'Gee, I wish I had done that.'
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020