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"I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all I had seen, heard, smelled, and felt: dizziness, horror, stupor, astonishment, joy, enthusiasm, nausea, inescapable attraction. What had attracted me? It was difficult to say: Human kind cannot bear much reality."
"I wanna explain something about the title 'Yeezus', simply put 'West' was my slave name and 'Yeezus' is my God name."
"Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom."
"The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name."
"How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind."
"My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to."
"It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally."
"The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all."
"His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master."
"I changed my name from Gail to Gayle in seventh grade because I liked to make a loopy 'y."
"Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names."
"Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom."
"My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible."
"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
"The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices."
"Eat you inside out like stress...You hear my voice, you see my face, you know my name / I take it out your ass and charge it to the game"
"No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus."
"To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy."
"With my name in cement, I feel actualised. - On cementing his hand prints on Sunset Boulevard"
