William Congreve Quotes
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My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
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It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.
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Chanel lambskin, vintage Vanson I'm on the bike doing wheelies in a mansion
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You look sad even though we just met No need to get upset But I got a show, gotta go, so I thank you And if you wanna still get sexed down You could catch the next Greyhound But until then, I gotta go, so I thank you
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There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
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Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value.
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I'm not a big fan of remakes. And even if they are good, they're still not as good as the original, so what's the point?
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I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."
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Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.
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In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.
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The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.
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We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper ageĀ Are they withered in the sod?
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Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.
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Before God can use a man greatly he must wound him deeply.
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[W]e declare it is a grievous sin before God to adopt restrictive measures in disobedience to God's divine command from the beginning of time to 'multiply and replenish the earth.' Surely those who project such measures to prevent life or to destroy life before or after birth will reap the whirlwind of God's retribution, for God will not be mocked.
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This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations.
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It is self-evident that the tabula rasa of modernization favors the optimum use of earth-moving equipment in as much as a totally flat datum is regarded as the most economic matrix upon which to predicate the rationalization of construction.
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O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.
