William Dean Howells (The Dean of American Letters) Quotes
The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.
William Dean Howells
Quotes to Explore
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
Wayne Rooney
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
Ice Cube
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
Barbara Mandrell
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
Kaley Cuoco
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
Larry Mullen, Jr.
U2
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The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
Gary Sherman
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In many ways, everything about my upbringing decreed that I wouldn't write a memoir because in the world where I grew up, in Chicago in the Fifties and Sixties, one key way of protesting ourselves - 'we' meaning black people - against racism, against its stereotypes and its insults, was to curate and narrate very carefully the story of the people.
Margo Jefferson
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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
George S. Patton
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Good readers make much out of little.
Irving Howe
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Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.
Jessica Hagedorn
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Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler's Equation reaches down into the very depths of existence.
Keith Devlin
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The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.
William Dean Howells