Ralph Ellison Quotes
For now I had begun to believe, despite all the talk of science around me, that there was a magic in spoken words.
Ralph Ellison
Quotes to Explore
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
Walter Pater
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
Park Shin-hye
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
T. C. Boyle
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
Olivier Martinez
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
Lao Tzu
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Without a dog, you'll be without at least one creature who thinks you are the smartest, most decent and heroic human being on the planet.
W. Bruce Cameron
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I have some property. We have a few acres, so I like working on it, whether it's cutting stuff down, cleaning stuff up, building steps, or working with concrete, you know, brickwork.
Ed Harris
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
Abraham Lincoln
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Before my marriage, I was really wild, and I was very open about it. My wife knows about it. From the age of 19 to 30, I was this mad, wild person. I just wanted to have a good time, not get serious with anyone. I didn't allow relationships to happen, and I made it clear to whoever I was with.
Ram Kapoor
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Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
Barack Obama
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And all for love, and nothing for reward.
Edmund Spenser
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One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.
Sam Walton
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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
Jonathan Edwards
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In 2007, I sold my first book, 'Grimspace.' It says it's SF on the spine. I believe it to be SF, though it's certainly written differently. I write in first person, present tense, and the protagonist is a woman with a woman's thoughts, feelings, and sexual desires.
Ann Aguirre
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I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
Socrates
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Pope Francis has helped me to focus once again on the joy in my pastoral ministry. He has challenged me genuinely to believe that the Gospel is and should be the source of the church's joy. His own approachable, cheerful, and hopeful style in exercising the papacy reminds me that shepherds must exude joy or they will fail to lead anyone else to discover it.
Wilton Daniel Gregory
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For now I had begun to believe, despite all the talk of science around me, that there was a magic in spoken words.
Ralph Ellison
