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Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That's… — Barry Hannah
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with… — Jorge Luis Borges
Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than the story. The… — Leonard Michaels
An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he finds… — H. L. Mencken
But I did not always know just what it was I wanted to photograph. I believe it is important for a photographer to discover this,… — Bill Brandt
The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by… — William James
The scientist finds his reward in what Henri Poincare calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibility of application to which any discovery… — Albert Einstein
We know at lot more now than the 'last time around the 1960s and 1970s - about how to work for smart schools... ' 'The… — David Perkins
Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it… — Arnold Schoenberg
If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne. — Rudyard Kipling
If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because… — William J. Brennan
Blessed is the man who gets the opportunity to devote his life to something bigger than himself and who finds himself surrounded by friends who… — Andy Stanley
Numberless marks does man bear in his soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God; but nothing gives a greater proof thereof, than that… — George Whitefield
Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds. — Richard Armour
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love, and joy without… — Martin Luther
The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is… — Khalil Gibran
Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next. — Nathanael Emmons
Love alone allows man to forget himself... it alone can still redeem even the darkest hours of the past since it alone finds the courage… — Karl Rahner
The first thing that a person finds in life and the last to which he holds out his hand, and the most precious that he… — Adolph Kolping
O Sacrament of Love! O sign of Unity! O bond of Charity! He who would have Life finds here indeed a Life to live in… — Saint Augustine
It is in the darkness that one finds the light. — Meister Eckhart
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and… — Seneca the Younger
One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him. — Laozi
I am not here as a public official, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing consensus that the… — Jimmy Carter

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