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Way Quotes - Page 210

It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.

Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner (1975). “The life and writings of Frederick Douglass”

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I'm going to be alive, I want to be challenged - to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn't an easy way, but it's a rewarding way.

"Frank Ocean: On Channel Orange, Meeting Odd Future, and His Tumblr Letter". Interview with Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. November 20, 2012.

The only way to the truth is through blasphemy.

Flannery O'Connor (2015). “Wise Blood”, p.82, Faber & Faber

But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.

Fernando Pessoa (1971). “Selected poems by Fernando Pessoa: including poems by his heteronyms: Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis [and] Alvaro de Campos, as well as some of his English sonnets and selections from his letters”

I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die.

"The player". Interview with Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2003.

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

"The player". Interview with Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2003.

Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person.

Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 14, 2012.

Neanderthals were pretty smart, and if we actively killed them off, then probably we did so in the same way that humans kill each other.

"Ask the Author Live: Elizabeth Kolbert on Neanderthals". The New Yorker interview, www.newyorker.com. August 12, 2011.