Susan Glaspell (Susan Keating Glaspell) Quotes
Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.
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I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.
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Reich and John Cage were pretty big influences on this record (Folie A Deux) in weird ways in that you wouldn't necessarily hear any of it - nothing ends up sounding like either of them, but I think just methodology and things like that ended up on the record in various ways.
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Sometimes I feel this summer as if I were walking through the green meadow again; idly, aimlessly, unthinking, and unguided.
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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country, than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.
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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
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L'offenseur ne pardonne jamais.1
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There's a bar in Edinburgh called 'CC Bloom's.' CC Bloom is the name of the character that Bette Midler played in Beaches. That is the gayest thing I have ever heard in my entire life. That place should just be called 'Fuck-Me-In-The-Ass Bar and Grill.'
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On reproche aux gens de parler d’eux-mêmes. C’est pourtant le sujet qu’ils traitent le mieux.
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Fashion is instant. It makes you feel something the second you see it on a body... whether you love it or hate it, or it offends you, or it makes you laugh or cry.
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Fame comes and fame goes, but you have to be able to laugh about yourself and to take it with a grain of salt.
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Every dollar I made from DJing, I put into my videos, promotion - everything.
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I think technology has changed America, not any one organization. Technology is taking the power away from the few. There'll be a lot more choices, and good people who are doing serious stuff will survive and there'll be a lot more voices, and that is very healthy.
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In carefully scrutinizing the affairs of the past, we find that there are many different opinions about them, and that there are some things that are quite unclear. It is better to regard such things as unknowable.
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One winter night, at half past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine
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The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.
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Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a slave, while Elizabeth offered Mary the loyal, steadfast friendship she craved but had always found so elusive.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.
