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No one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by… — Camille Paglia
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, youâ€™re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger.… — Jon Krakauer
Coffee and cigarettes are much better if you want an instant breakfast. — P.J. O'Rourke
I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right… — Jackie Collins
The moment this House undertakes to legislate upon this subject slavery, it dissolves the Union. Should it be my fortune to have a seat upon… — James Henry Hammond
Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase — Charles Dickens
The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play… — Seth Godin
Some beliefs may be subject to such instant, brutal and unambiguous rejection. For example: no left-coiling periwinkle has ever been found among millions of snails… — Stephen Jay Gould
Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety,… — Frederic Chopin
Our Lord Jesus is ever giving, and does not for a solitary instant withdraw his hand. As long as there is a vessel of grace… — Charles Spurgeon
Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step. — Seungsahn
Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with… — Harper Lee
Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters… — Natalie Goldberg
Imagine that we are sitting in an ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a corpse behind the door. In an instant the… — Carl Theodor Dreyer
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games… — A. Bartlett Giamatti
When my son, James, was doing homework for school, he would have five or six windows open on his computer, Instant Messenger was flashing continuously,… — Ken Robinson
Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical approach, by the… — W. Eugene Smith

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