Paul Verlaine Quotes
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'
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Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
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I never forbid myself anything.
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I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.
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We live in a society where nothing is sacred.
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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
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With every social media, there's hate and things like that.
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Art matters.
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When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic works. Like 'Madea', and 'Night, Mother', and 'Sam Shepard', and all that kind of stuff. That's what I really wanted to do.
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I love dishes that feature the various shades of a single colour, making you stop to check what's in there.
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I think any actor just wants to keep working, and for me, I want to work on projects that are with fun people.
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Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression...
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But so fair,She takes the breath of men awayWho gaze upon her unaware.
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Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.
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Under which head do you class those who are at sea?
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Sometimes I hate writing songs. Because it hurts sometimes. I'm very emotional.
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I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint.
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We believe the singularity is inevitable, and all businesses will be redefined as computers overtake humans in intelligence.
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It only takes one extra something! To get you to where you trying to get to!
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It seems I’m getting fresher everytime I turn around.
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Et je m'en vaisAu vent mauvaisQui m'emporteDeçà, delà,Pareil à laFeuille morte.
