Adah Isaacs Menken Quotes
There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
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He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
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I don't really get to see a lot of other comedians, because I work with the same people all the time. The guy I really like is Nick DiPaulo. I love Nick DiPaulo, but again, he's a buddy of mine. But I liked him for a long time. I liked him before he was a buddy of mine.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
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O Man, as long as you exist, know, have, and cherish, You have not been delivered, believe me, of your burden.
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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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59: In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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He loved his country as no other man has loved her; but no man deserved less at her hands.
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I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.
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If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
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It's the ultimate pinnacle of stand-up to have an hour on HBO, but way more people see Comedy Central, and they've been good to me.
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Girls seem to get me in trouble a lot of times.
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My idols are all older.
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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.
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The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.
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There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.
