Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
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For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. ~Helen Suzman
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I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary. ~Billy Crystal
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There have been a couple of jobs I have done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink. ~Clancy Brown
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For mercy has a human heart; pity, a human face; and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress. ~William Blake
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Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life. ~Sarah Michelle Gellar
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I have never seen a homeless guy with a bottle of Gatorade. ~George Carlin
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I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night. ~Charles Spurgeon
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You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself. ~Truman Capote
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An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea. ~Turkish Proverb
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It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~Woody Allen
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