Sara Teasdale Quotes
If I am peaceful, I shall see Beauty's face continually; Feeding on her wine and bread I shall be wholly comforted, For she can make one day for me Rich as my lost eternity.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
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If you're on a budget, Sweetgreen is a new chain of salad bars that are very good but inexpensive. You choose from a menu or customise your own, with some protein, a healthy salad and a great dressing.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.
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When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
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Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constitution, or at least most of it, but also the most searching commentary on it that has ever appeared. Each of them served as president of the United States for eight years. What they had to say to each other has to command attention.
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.
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AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.
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It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared - as it always should be.
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Disconnection or alienation from the past has political consequences.
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Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person singular because I have to imitate accurately the voice of someone who is not like me. The third-person singular gives me an authority over a character.
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Tarzan was an interested spectator. His desire to kill burned fiercely in his wild breast, but his desire to learn was even greater. He would follow this savage creature for a while and know from whence he came. He could kill him at his leisure later, when the bow and deadly arrows were laid aside.
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The one without second is emptiness, the other one makes it true.
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They have made a grave mistake choosing that woman.
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Everybody's got their poison, and mine is sugar.
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I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.
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I just love seeing people embrace freedom, faith, and courage in the face of enormous odds.
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If I am peaceful, I shall see Beauty's face continually; Feeding on her wine and bread I shall be wholly comforted, For she can make one day for me Rich as my lost eternity.
