Bret Harte Quotes
Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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A heroic nature is very Greek.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
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I love India so much. It's sort of the most chaotic but also disciplined place at the same time. Every time I go there, I feel like I'm ready to rock and roll.
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I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.
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Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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A reporter from 'The Times' wanted to arm-wrestle, and as I recall, he kept challenging me. So we went at it, and there was a pop. His arm broke. Very strange. He went into a kind of swoon.
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I'm a fatalist.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
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It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.
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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
