Rumi Quotes
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.
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There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'
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A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.
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Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.
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In the cotton States, after the war...the Jew came down in force, set up shop on the plantation, supplied all the negro's wants on credit, and at the end of the season was proprietor of the negro's share of the present crop and of part of his share of the next one. Before long, the whites detested the Jew, and it is doubtful if the negro loved him.
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I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government.
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The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.
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Try not to miss me when I'm gone.
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He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
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Lincoln movie had nothing to do with politics. It had nothing to do with holding a mirror up to the way we conduct our business on Capitol Hill. This was meant to be a story, a Lincoln portrait if you will. I think any time is the right time for a very compelling story, any time.
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To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last.
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I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people.
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It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.
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Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking.
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Parents, family, and friends tell you that you can be whatever you want to be. But what they really mean is whatever you want as long as it fits in their neat, little box. And for a woman exercising her command, that box is restrictive as hell. Destroy that box and the horse it rode in on. Light it on fire for good measure. Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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I'm not cynical.
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A bad attitude is the only true handicap.
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When I was a baby, my mother tells me I never slept because I never wanted to miss anything.
