Doe Quotes - Page 322

Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.

Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.

If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuer that does not readily let go.

It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.

You need to be passionate about the creative work that you're doing, but you need to be kind of emotionally separated from how people react to it or how it does. Those things should be secondary, and primary should be your love of the creative act.

I feel like someone is pressing me into a mold that does not fit my body, forcing me intothe wrong shape.

Can I ask why you’re throwing knives at cheese?’ ‘Caleb came by to discuss something,’ Tobias says, leaning his head against the wall as he looks at me. ‘And knife-throwing just came up somehow.’ ‘As it so often does,’ I say, a small smile inching across my face.

We share a common enemy, but does that make us friends?

though he does not touch me, he steadies me.

Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And I know, without being told, that's what love does, when it's right-it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be. This is right.

things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting.

I am sure that inspiration will strike multiple times - it always does.

Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies.

A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.

Yeah I live of my music. Why does everyone ask me that? Is my music that absurd that nobody could possibly be buying it?

My own growth is a part of a group evolution, definitely. It does feel as if the changes in the group are meant to be, and that I am not as much a catalyst, so to say, but rather a result of this.

My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.

I do everything that everybody else does.

I'll tell you what does impress me: the fact that a lot of the cats who were our idols are still out there doing it. That impresses me very much.

I don't like to wonder about it-I just like to do it. That's what I mean about the image stuff and all that. There's far too much emphasis being placed on that kind of stuff... the whole emphasis on what does it mean? Everybody has their own particular vision.

Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.

Hollywood is wonderful, but it does eat its young.

I've kind of touched on the youth generation, what the concept of fame, what does it actually, really mean.

Artists who are relevant today won't be tomorrow unless someone does the right thing by their character and preserves it in the dialogue of a movie.

One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before.