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I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of… — Miguel de Cervantes
You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have… — Amy Tan
The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame. — J P Donleavy
When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge, a surgeon's probe.… — Annie Dillard
There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other.… — Barbara Kingsolver
But the thing that was great about Capablanca was that he really spoke his mind, he said what he believed was true, he said what… — Bobby Fischer
...everything around us, dead or alive, in the eyes of a crazy photographer mysteriously takes on many variations, so that a seemingly dead object comes… — Josef Sudek
He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you stop searching, you stop living, because then you're dwelling in the past. If you're not reaching forward to any growth or future, you… — Wynn Bullock
...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to find your way… — J M Coetzee
Man, when living, is soft and tender; when dead, he is hard and tough. All animals and plants when living are tender and delicate; when… — Laozi
In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for,… — Henry David Thoreau
It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70... — Freddie Mercury
How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms… — Mahatma Gandhi
You must know that baptism for someone who is dead is quite as essential as baptism for some one who is living. — Boyd K. Packer
by grace ye are saved, not of works,' but by the will of God through Jesus Christ . . . If we please Him in… — Polycarp
As for that footage, video footage showing the dead children allegedly killed in the chemical attack, it is horrible. The question is only who did… — Vladimir Putin
One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which we… — Saint Augustine
As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing. — Jack Abbott
The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Earlier in this century, philanthropy often flowed from the wills of dead industrialists. In recent decades, it's as likely to have come from a very… — Michael Milken
The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market economy. It failed… — Tony Blair
I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don't go… — Helen Thomas
For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because it lacks any… — Wendell Berry
If you're fifty, exercise your mind and body regularly, eat well, and have a general zest for life, you're likely younger - in very real,… — Ken Robinson

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