Ellen Glasgow Quotes
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
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With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
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Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.
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There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.
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I have given you the power of choice, and you only alternate Between futile speculation and unconsidered action.
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I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man.
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And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.
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The danger hidden within Weber's charismatic celebrity is … having a predisposition to imitate any one individual must always have its negative impact especially when the role model does not feel a duty … to instantiate suitable values to adopt.
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Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.
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I grew as close to Madonna as I've ever been to a woman without being romantically involved.
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I ripped off half my hair with a waxing strip, and it didn't grow back for, like, 5 months.
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I'm pretty good at getting things out of the way, especially paperwork. I hate it sitting about, as it somehow weighs me down.
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The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.
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Bowie has been in my mind as someone who disappeared from the public for a long time and then emerged. A strange, exotic creature - he seems to inherit a tradition of enigma and exclusiveness.
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Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
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The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."
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Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
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The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
