Paul Gauguin Quotes
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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Individuals can stand up against genocide in Darfur and Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.
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Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars.
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Haut doch die Polen, daß sie am Leben verzagen; ich habe alles Mitgefühl für ihre Lage, aber wir können, wenn wir bestehn wollen, nichts andres tun, als sie ausrotten; der Wolf kann auch nicht dafür, daß er von Gott geschaffen ist, wie er ist, und man schießt ihn doch dafür totd, wenn man kann.
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To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.
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When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great strain. Writers care greatly how a thing is said - it makes all the difference. So they are constantly faced with too many choices and must make too many decisions. I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.
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Literature is no longer Necessary Teaching is left.
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.
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People love me. And you know what, I have been very successful. Everybody loves me.
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You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand.
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People ask me where I live most of the time, and it's kind of complicated for me to answer, because I'm not really sure. It's somewhere in between London, Rome, Paris, and Rio.
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Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.
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Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.
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Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait - for an eternity.
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Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.
