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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We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar unexpectedness of obituary notices in the newspapers.
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Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press
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I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.
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When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.
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She tried not to think about what it would be like running across the airfield to the radio room an hour from now, under fire. But she did it. Because you do. It is incredible what you do, knowing you have to.
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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.
