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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

Black Far Ignorance Infinity
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The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

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Combination Feeling Me Soul
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All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.

Based Common Emotions Fundamental
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.

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About Anything Be Happy Being
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I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.

Authors Become Competitor Concerning
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.

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American Better His Just
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My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.

Absolutely Am Bored Come
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.

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Challenging Creatively Me Myself
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I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.

Am Anything Down Dream
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You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.

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Crazy Everybody Out Please
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I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.

Accomplishment Concluded Discrimination Elegant
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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.

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Art Art World Galleries I Love
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I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?

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Any Being Being Real Dollar
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The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.

Dramatic Element Great Great Part
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

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Able Being Blessed Career
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Your look reflects what's happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you.

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Gotta Happening Look Mind
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Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.

Accustomed Air Any Awe
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.

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Any Barack Barack Obama Before
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The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.'

Cosmic Escape Fixed Hence
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.

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About American Life Make
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.

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Doing Easy Every Every Time
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Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.

Affects Concealed Conflict Discoveries
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Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.

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Conscious Doing Gangsta Just
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Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.

Any Anything Better Cannot
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'Life Is Good' represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.

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Beautiful Dramatic Good Heavy
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When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.

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America Basically Dead Hip Hop
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I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers.

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America Could Government Help
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.

About Anything Hint Impressive
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The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere 'assonance' rather than that of actual rhyme.

Actual Agreement Attempts Deserves
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The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

Heroic Interruptions Judicious Just
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We should perceive that man's period of historical existence, a period so short that his physical constitution has not been altered in the slightest degree, is insufficient to allow of any considerable mental change.

Allow Altered Any Been
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Aim Endless Hence Imaginary
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
Better Better Time Having Immorality
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
Conscience Inner Inner Voice Looking
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

Around Coffin Cynic Flowers
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me - ever.

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Ever Feel Just Me
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.

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Admire Ahead Entire Favorites
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.

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Africa Been Going Has Been
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.

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Around Bass Big Definitely
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.

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Age Common Sense Wisdom
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Afraid Audience Comedian God
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

Cynics Nine Out Right
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If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

After Depart Ever Eye
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A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

Because Comics Easy Election
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

About Bachelors Know Married
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

Another Better Better Time Die
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Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

Always Awards Battle Between
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I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.

Am Does Flaws Get
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I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.

About Book Breaking Classical
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Also Better Cabbage Idealist
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