Walt Whitman Quotes
To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every inch of space is a miracle, every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same, every cubic foot of the interior swarms with the same; every spear of grass-the frames, limbs, organs, of men and women, and all that concerns them, all these to me are unspeakably perfect miracles.
Quotes to Explore
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
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Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.
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I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.
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Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.
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Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.
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没有一个人民的军队，便没有人民的一切。
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It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
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I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.
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A single question remained, the age-old cry of anguish: 'How could one so beautiful be so base?'
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I try to get up every day.
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I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.
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I do not like bad photographs. I don't like to be badly lit. There is a fashion, particularly on stage, for very 'toppy' lighting, which makes a child look 50. Ten o'clock is very good. If someone is taking a picture, you say, 'Lamps at 10 o'clock,' then everybody looks lovely.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.
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If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
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Honestly, I don't know enough about what's a good timeslot and what isn't. Either you have a timeslot where nobody is really tuning in, which isn't good, or you're in a good hour, and then you've got a lot of competition.
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Study and in general the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
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In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.
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To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every inch of space is a miracle, every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same, every cubic foot of the interior swarms with the same; every spear of grass-the frames, limbs, organs, of men and women, and all that concerns them, all these to me are unspeakably perfect miracles.
