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John Jeremiah Sullivan has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.
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The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it,…
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I'm just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.
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What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.
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I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you’re somehow able to look…
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A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.
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One of the best things I’ve read about that inexplicably, but endlessly, fascinating group of people, the so-called Serious Collectors of 78s.…
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Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.
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The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island,…
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I want to stay in touch with what I have in common with my subjects, with the places where are equally implicated…
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The initial research will be very indiscriminate. I do a lot of reading, buy a stack of books and read and digest…
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Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.
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I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among…
— Virginia Woolf
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If I were a bottle of wine, my name would be Thom Cork
— Thom Yorke
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I know never to take a wine for granted. Drawing a cork is like attendance at a concert or at a play…
— Gerald Asher
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For my money, insecurity, depression, etc, can be healed by way of El Morocco, sad songs at 4am, and the pop of…
— Elaine Stritch
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Women smirk at baldness. How adorable would they find it if they began to lose their breasts in their late twenties? If…
— Augusten Burroughs
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Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This…
— Edward de Bono
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A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is…
— Karl G. Maeser
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The process of rating players can be compared to the measurement of the position of a cork bobbing up and down on…
— Arpad Elo
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How would you know a Cork footballer? He's the one who thinks that oral sex is just talking about it.
— John B. Keane
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What a pure blessing it was to have a bath in a tub alone in a room where all you had to…
— Nancy E. Turner
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Ferguson's out of order. He has lost all sense of reality. He is going out looking for a confrontation, then asking the…
— Arsene Wenger
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