Edgar Lee Masters Quotes
Blind as I was, I tried to get outAs the carriage fell in the ditch,And was caught in the wheels and killed.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?
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To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.
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Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.
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Even if you're an angry, intense person, you also have to have intense joy about life and intense feelings about the world.
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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
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Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.
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We, all of us, could do a much better job of evoking what someone has called the universal principle of human altruism: the urge in us all to help others who are in danger.
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I love food. I mean, I really love food. I take pictures of my finest, funniest and most fascinating dishes, post them on Twitter, and send them to friends. I treat menus like classic literature, refusing to skip even one word. I read the description of every item, regardless of whether or not I'm interested in eating it.
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I went from 220 pounds that I cut down for 'Moneyball' to almost 270-280 pounds for 'Ten Year.'
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You always look ahead to what you'll do next.
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My brothers and sister and I were brought up in an atmosphere which I would describe as 'Puritan decadence'. Puritanism names the behaviour which is condemned; Puritan decadence regards the name itself as indecent, and pretends that the object behind that name does not exist until it is named.
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Blind as I was, I tried to get outAs the carriage fell in the ditch,And was caught in the wheels and killed.
