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LARRY NORMAN Life is God's art.
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LARRY NIVEN In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
LARRY NIVEN We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
LARRY NIVEN I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
LARRY NIVEN I love superconductors.
LARRY NIVEN Treat your life like something to be sculpted.
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LARRY NIVEN I don't have a strong interest in history.
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LARRY NIVEN I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
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LARRY NIVEN Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
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LARRY NIVEN Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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LARRY MCMURTRY Self-parody is the first portent of age.
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LARRY MCMURTRY A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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LARRY MACPHAIL I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, ...
LARRY MACPHAIL When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go ...
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LARRY MACPHAIL The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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LARRY KRAMER I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there....
LARRY KRAMER Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, bu...
LARRY KRAMER We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; t...
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LARRY KRAMER Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
LARRY KRAMER I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay...
LARRY KRAMER AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could ha...
LARRY KRAMER Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a ...
LARRY KRAMER By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
LARRY KRAMER Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to reall...
LARRY KRAMER The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as i...
LARRY KRAMER Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today, 'Lets think of all the poor dead people' - or 'let&...
LARRY KRAMER There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But h...
LARRY KRAMER I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fi...
LARRY KRAMER Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death thr...
LARRY KRAMER I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use t...
LARRY KRAMER We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried...
LARRY KRAMER Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mea...
LARRY KRAMER The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denia...
LARRY KRAMER Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier ...
LARRY KRAMER I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could ...
LARRY KRAMER AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - ...
LARRY KRAMER I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first...
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