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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This is aeons older than you or your family. Older than the town. Blood makes the sun shine and the crops grow. This is the truth of the world. Fuck the world. I just want my sister back.
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Teachers are often, and understandably, impatient for their students to develop clear and adequate ideas. But putting ideas in relation to each other isn't a simple job. It's confusing and this confusion does take time. All of us need time for our confusion if we are to build the breadth and depth that give significance to our knowledge.
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Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.
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I would say that we are living in an age that is increasingly spiritually blind and morally deaf. The man who does not shout is not going to be heard.
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O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.
