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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I…
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
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When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you…
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons…
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We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life…
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed.…
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation…
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense…
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
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Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
— Walter Raleigh
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Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
— Philip Sidney
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These are the things I prize And hold of dearest worth: Light of the sapphire skies, Peace of the silent hills, Shelter…
— Henry Van Dyke
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Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.
— Andre Breton
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When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
— Thomas Brooks
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It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his…
— Samuel Johnson
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I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll…
— David Almond
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Lovers O lovers, lovers it is time to set out from the world. I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming…
— Rumi
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I do not murmur, even if my heart break.
— Heinrich Heine
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See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See,…
— Ezra Pound
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Whenever I sit with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the distant song of an…
— Junichiro Tanizaki
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