William Dean Howells (The Dean of American Letters) Quotes
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Golf is not easy.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.
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I'm not trying to be something that I'm not, and I think a lot of people can relate to that. They want something that's real, and I think I give that to them.
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Behold, whiles she before the altar stands, Hearing the holy priest that to her speakes, And blesseth her with his two happy hands.
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I swear people don't want sex so much as they want somebody who'll listen to 'em … the first thing you learn after fellatio is how to listen.
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We have to all come together and create unity out of diversity that the destiny that we build will be one that is right not just for now but for generations to come.
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I fear the future.
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Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.
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Fortunately, I get asked to play - regardless of how big or small they are - some really interesting people who are part of great stories. So, as an actor, there's really nothing better.
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'The Clone Wars' got very dark as we headed towards the end of the war and the downfall of the Jedi.
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We live on a finite planet. We have finite resources, and we're running out of good, arable land.
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When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.
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Hillary Clinton famously talked about how raising a child takes a village. Except our society isn't set up that way. We're organized in nuclear units, and a single mom can ask her friends only so many times for help picking up the kids.
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'Moby-Dick' really threw me. I read it when I was 14 and my best friends were books. It changed the way I looked at the world.
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I get lost in my right brain, especially in creative things.
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She was a young person whose reveries never were in retrospect. For her past was no treasury of distinct memories, all hoarded and classified, some brighter than others and more highly valued. All memories were for her but as the motes in one fused radiance that followed her and made more luminous the pathway of her future.
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Cats and ghosts both partook of the saucers of milk and that was okay. They consumed different parts of it: the cats its substance, the ghosts its essence, and none went to waste.
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I stalk about her door, like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for waftage.
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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From the time I took office as Chancellor of the Exchequer, I began to learn that the State held, in the face of the Bank and the City, an essentially false position as to finance. The Government itself was not to be a substantive power, but was to leave the Money Power supreme and unquestioned.
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The world is not for cowardly peoples.
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For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon.
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Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?
