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Five minutes! Zounds! I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
Hannah Cowley
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Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!
Lewis Carroll
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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.
Joan D. Vinge
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I am human: nothing human is alien to me.
In Latin: Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.
Terence
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A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.
Jane Austen
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Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
Walter Lord
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Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside.
Stephen King
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If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.
Mickey Spillane
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Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.
José Bergamín
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True human life does not take place in time but always "is" at the "timeless" point where the past becomes the future - a point which we incorrectly label the present. This is a timeless point, and people are free only at this point.
Leo Tolstoy
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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
Louis Aragon
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Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.
Bertolt Brecht
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Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.
Jerry Kramer
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Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way
Isaac Rosenberg
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I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with all my heart,if we are talking about me, since we are talking about me,please resist blasting the trumpet during my visitand resign yourselves to my quiet absence.
Pablo Neruda
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Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.
Owen Feltham
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Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are.
J. K. Rowling
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
L. Sprague de Camp
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Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself -- thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
Henrik Ibsen
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One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.
G. K. Chesterton
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To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.
Agatha Christie
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Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
Adrian Mitchell
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863.
William Faulkner
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Friendship is the unspeakable joy and blessing that result to two or more individuals who from constitution sympathize. Such natures are liable to no mistakes, but will know each other through thick and thin. Between two by nature alike and fitted to sympathize, there is no veil, and there can be no obstacle. Who are the estranged? Two friends explaining.
Henry David Thoreau
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I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be A pleasant road. I do not ask that Thou wouldst take from me Aught of its load;
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