There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living. - Roger Zelazny - Quotesmemo.com

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You never forget how to dance. It's just a matter of your bones working and things like that.

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Roger Zelazny

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

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I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

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Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

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The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform.

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The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.

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I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something--or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip.

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You never forget how to dance. It's just a matter of your bones working and things like that.

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Novelists are people who have discovered that they can dampen their neuroses by writing make-believe. We will keep on doing that no matter what, while offering loftier explanations.

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Garry Winogrand

Of course, you have politics, the Vietnam war and all that monkey business. There are all kinds of reasons. At every one of those demonstrations in the late Sixties about the Vietnam war, you could guarantee there'd be a series of speeches. The ostensible purpose was to protest the war. But then somebody came up and gave a black power speech, usually Black Muslims, then. And then you'd have a women's rights speech. It was terrible to listen to these things.

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Jane Elliott

White people’s number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are other than white. We don’t have to learn about those who are other than white. And our number two freedom is the freedom to deny that we’re ignorant.

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Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topographical description; dialogue can also convey a sense of place. Even so, I insist, the traveler invents the place. Feeling compelled to comment on my travel books, people say to me, "I went there"---China, India, the Pacific, Albania-- "and it wasn't like that. " I say, "Because I am not you.

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