Erin Morgenstern Quotes
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The voice of the Holy Father was like a light.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is accomplished, would recognize that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing.
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On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet.
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I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.
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The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.
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I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians - I will not speak of my own trade - soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years, but do not tell.
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Who didn't cry at 'The Notebook?' If you didn't cry at 'The Notebook,' something is probably wrong with you.
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Advertising is brilliant. It's an industry that spends billions and billions of dollars to get you to react the way it wants you to react.
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I believe their race and religious background shaped the way they were treated by the media…The willingness to blame them even though they were clearly victims was distressing.
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Computers are like horses; they can sense fear and will act based on that.
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Love and a red rose can't be hid.
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With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form.
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Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.
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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
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One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.
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There's this kind of incredibly mistaken idea that because it's so much cheaper to roll the camera than it used to be and it's so much easier to accumulate a ton of footage, that then you can just go shoot a ton of footage and the editor will make sense out of it. But if you don't have something deliberate made, you're not gonna save it in the editing room.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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I remember feeling the temperature change the first time the curtain came up, the difference between the audience temperature and the stage temperature. I'll never forget it.
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Henny was beautifully, wholeheartedly vile: she asked no quarter and gave none to the foul world, and when she told her children tales of the villainies they could understand, it was not to corrupt them, but because, for her, the world was really so.
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You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.
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Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.
