"We choose--or choose not--to be alone when we……" — Gene Wolfe
"We choose--or choose not--to be alone when we decide whom we will accept as our fellows, and whom we will reject. Thus an eremite in a mountain is in company, because the birds and coneys, the initiates whose words live in his 'forest books,' and the winds--the messengers of the Increate--are his companions. Another man, living in the midst of millions, may be alone, because there are none but enemies and victims around him."
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48 Quotes by Gene Wolfe
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Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
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Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that…
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There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity…
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You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.
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I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with…
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I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all.…
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The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories…
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You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking…
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Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you…
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God is the nest we build together.
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Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet.…
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My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army…
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
— Karen Armstrong
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
— Antonio Banderas
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
— Henry Adams
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
— Charles Baudelaire
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
— Bob Beauprez
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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