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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds…
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public…
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting…
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of…
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of…
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting…
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance…
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The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it…
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What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself…
— Willa Cather
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
— Jean Cocteau
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the…
— Sam Abell
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I am as certain as I am standing here, that the secret of much mischief to our own souls, and to the…
— Alexander Whyte
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When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms…
— Djuna Barnes
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Be quick without hurrying.
— John Wooden
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A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties.…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
— E. M. Forster
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There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better…
— Mary Steenburgen
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Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more,…
— Tryon Edwards
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How I like claret!...It fills one's mouth with a gushing freshness, then goes down to cool and feverless; then, you do not…
— John Keats
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