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My friends, all I'm trying to say is that if we are to go forward today, we've got to go back and rediscover some mighty… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I look at the books on my library shelves. They certainly seem dormant. But what if the characters are quietly rearranging themselves? What if Emma… — Verlyn Klinkenborg
I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other than going to… — Tony Kushner
Before you shoot an irresistible subject, mute all your senses except sight to find out how much is left for the camera to record. — Andreas Feininger
One [of the two ideas for PROOF] was to write about two sisters who are quarreling over the legacy of something left behind by their… — David Auburn
Theatre, film and television are all modes of storytelling, and many of us are fortunate enough to move freely among them without feeling that we've… — Theresa Rebeck
The health of a nation, a society, can be determined by the art it demands. We have insisted of television and our movies that they… — Edward Albee
...the more strictly and faithfully every man and woman lives up to the guidance and teaching of this Inward Anointing - and never turns aside… — Elias Hicks
What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and… — Victor Hugo
It was a bold, wild life for a faerie - most never even left their forests - but she was a bold, wild lass, and… — Laini Taylor
But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves… — Virginia Woolf
Walking was not fast enough, so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so we sailed. Sailing… — Margaret Atwood
Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf are the shadows… — Virginia Woolf
We've come a long way, we've come a long way and we never even left L.A. — Michelle Shocked
How was your flight? Well, aeronautically it was a great success. Socially, it left quite a bit to be desired. — Noel Coward
All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out. — A J P Taylor
A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with mud collect; weeds… — Cyril Connolly
In the world outside this glass room, songbirds are feeding and resting in the trees. Some will take off tonight and not land until they… — Sandra Steingraber
Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures. — Brian Andreas
First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars you bought for… — Natasha Trethewey
The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver of the limo… — Stephen King
From across the woods, as if by common accord, birds left their trees and darted upward. I joined them, flew amount them, they did not… — George Saunders
There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much of life were… — Elizabeth Goudge
You know, you sound like birds when you do that chuckle thing. It's nice. Over to the left, Vishous put his head in his hands. — J R Ward
All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating and tormenting themselves… — Leo Tolstoy

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