William Gilmore Simms Quotes
The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
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Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.
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Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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I don't think men get enough flowers. A deeper pink or red peonies are my favorite. But I'll take anything, really.
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God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
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If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.
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I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it's worth being a public fool if that's all you can be in order to communicate yourself.
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As a child, I really did see buildings bombed, and what makes me different from an American that's the same age as I am is that I can understand what happens when there is fighting in a way that they couldn't.
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When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.
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Acting is kind of difficult to intellectualize - it's a far more visceral experience. It's really hard to be able to think about and then employ these kind of esoteric notions of this person's backstory and try to weave it in somehow. It's just kind of impossible.
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The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.
