William Dean Howells (The Dean of American Letters) Quotes
If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those guys won - guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys. Those guys have been there, so there's a lot that they can teach the guys.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
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To survive is to win.
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I don't care what you say anymore, this is my life Go ahead with your own life and leave me alone.
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I wholeheartedly rejected anything remotely feminine but was not enthusiastic about anything masculine, either. I did not want to cook and have babies, and I did not want to be an engineer or a baseball player or a soldier or a politician or any of the myriad careers open mostly or solely to men. I wanted to be a poet.
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As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
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You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing.
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All night I lay awake beside you, Leaning on my elbow, watching your Sleeping face, that face whose purity Never ceases to astonish me.
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If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.
