Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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quotistThe world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. ~D. H. Lawrence
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I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion. ~Eric Maisel
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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proverbiosHe is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. ~Chinese Proverb
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But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. ~Betsy Lerner
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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That is what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us. ~Kurt Busch
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We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love. ~Suzanne Collins
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I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games. ~Lincoln Chafee
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ~William Griffith Wilson
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Because all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen. ~Holly Goldberg Sloan
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From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. ~Stephen LaBerge
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If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes. ~Nguyen Cao Ky
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it. ~Confucius
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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success; such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. ~Nikola Tesla
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The way I look at it is that once you create a piece of art, and it's out in the world, there's nothing you can do about it. People can use it the way they want to. There's nothing you can do about it. All you can hope for is that people that are using it are using it with the best intent. ~David Lloyd
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