Ralph Ellison Quotes
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I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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The more questions and answers we get, the more useful Quora is.
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I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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I do not need any cheerleaders at my moot court. And I cannot imagine walking into that Court without the preparation of a few vicious moot courts; it is critical to the development of my thinking.
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Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.
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Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.
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Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.
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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.
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What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.
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Camp Southern Ground is a lot more than a camp. It's more of a campus.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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It seems pretentious to assume that we are not creatures of action. I think often it takes a situation of extreme absurdity, extreme action, to push us to the limits of what our character is, and to change us as people.
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I have a stationary bike that I do twice a week, but I'm not really serious about it. I just do it until I get tired. And then I have a step thing that I really hate. It's hard on your knees. I have a treadmill that keeps getting stuck. It's nice to have equipment around, though, because you can sit on it anytime.
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When grace changes the heart, submission out of fear changes to submission out of love, and true humility is born.
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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
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I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.
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Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
