Sappho Quotes
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He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
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Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
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I think Bernie's [Sanders] setting a direction in the way that [Barry] Goldwater when he lost - I'm not saying he's going to lose. We don't know what is going to happen. It's early. But I think he's already set a lot of themes.
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We have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.
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America does not fight for land, glory or riches.
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One of the great things about having been on Lost is people coming up and feeling so enthusiastic about the show and saying, "Oh it provided us so much entertainment," or "It inspired conversations."
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Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.
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If your feet are firmly planted on the grount you'll never be able to dance.
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Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.
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Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.
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If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.
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My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that - I do that by manipulating how and where I cut and what succession of images I work with.
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If you think you are beaten you are, if you think you dare not, you don't. If you like to win, but you think you can't, it is almost certain you won't.
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If we had these rockets in 1939, we should never have had this war.
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Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.