Jane Roberts Quotes
Now there are classes indeed where the newly dead are instructed. I used to teach some of these.
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Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.
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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.
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Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.
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Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
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The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.
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I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.
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We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.
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I live life what I consider to be normal.
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I'm not one to be like, 'What is everybody doing? Let me do that!' I just do what I want.
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A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.
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I think getting up every morning is the most amazing thing any of us do. We know what's out there, and yet we keep going.
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And not a vanity is given in vain.
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What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.
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Here in America, every single actor, since they were little boys, they sing and dance and perform like angels. We don't do that. We are actors who work in a theater in very classic performances or plays.
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From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.
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Draft day is a hectic day, especially for draftees and, more or less, for management.
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Candidates need to demonstrate strategic thinking and strong problem solving skills. And, just as importantly, they need to know when and how to ask for help.
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
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American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.
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It is at the family fireside, often under the shelter of the law itself, that the real tragedies of life are acted; in these days traitors wear gloves, scoundrels cloak themselves in public esteem, and their victims die broken-hearted, but smiling to the last. What I have just related to you is almost an every-day occurrence; and yet you profess astonishment.
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Now there are classes indeed where the newly dead are instructed. I used to teach some of these.
