May Sarton Quotes
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I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I just want to do my job.
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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.
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I will not be collateral damage in a presidential campaign, nor will I be a woman bullied by Hillary Clinton.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
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My music speaks of warriors. It speaks of women being kings and this sense of pride of being more, even though you have less.
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Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves.
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Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and on ambushing you, presumably until you die.
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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
