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- Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dak trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more the prettiness.
- And over one more set of hills, along the sea, the last roses have opened their factories of sweetness and are giving it back to…
- I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.
- I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think…
- You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.
- And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house,…
- Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of…
- The poet dreams of the classroom I dreamed I stood up in class And I said aloud: Teacher, Why is algebra important? Sit down, he…
- I do not live happily or comfortably With the cleverness of our times. The talk is all about computers, The news is all about bombs…
- When death comes…. I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering: what it’s going to be like, that cottage of darkness? And…
- I have a little dog who likes to nap with me. He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck. He is…
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle