Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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A waning United States would likely be more nationalistic, more defensive about its national identity, more paranoid about its homeland security, and less willing to sacrifice resources for the sake of others' development.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
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There is never a typical week. I don't think I can live with a typical week.
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My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.
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It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy.
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From when I was a young boy, I read books on weapons and tanks and combat. I was so interested in the army.
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Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
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The soul of Iran incarnate in the body of India.
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We can never legitimately cut loose from our archetypal foundations unless we are prepared to pay the price of a neurosis, any more than we can rid ourselves of our body and its organs without committing suicide.
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We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
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In half a lifetime, many Americans have seen their God dethroned, their heroes defiled, their culture polluted, their values assaulted, their country invaded, and themselves demonized as extremists and bigots for holding on to beliefs Americans have held for generations.
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Concrete poetry began for me with the extraordinary sense that the syntax I had been using , the movement of language within me, af a physical level was no longer there. So it had to be replaced with something else with a syntax and movement that would be true of this new feeling.
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This is the very contrary of dropping out. Most people can't wait to get home to their house or apartment and shut that door and turn on the TV. To me, that's dropping out.
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Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
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I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.
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I strongly believe that the fundamental laws of nature are not emergent phenomena.
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The dotted line my father's ashplant made On Sandymount Strand Is something else the tide won't wash away.
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Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.
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Karl Lagerfeld and Tom Ford are both geniuses.
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A novel I read when I was about 17 or 18 - 'The World According to Garp,' by John Irving - really made me want to become a writer. The character of Garp is a novelist, and at the time, the whole lifestyle of being a writer was hugely appealing to me.
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Sing us a song you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we're all in the mood for a melody, And you've got us feeling all right.
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That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis.
