William Golding Quotes
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I quite enjoy sport, and I'm now an Olympic champion. It's a bit weird, isn't it?
Victoria Pendleton
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When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.
Vicki Lawrence
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Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be okay.
Vanessa Marcil
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Time and space may separate us, but not the thoughts and memories that bind us.
Ed Parker
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I regard myself as a religious... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Love is a handful of seeds, marriage the garden, and like your gardens, Paula, marriage requires total commitment, hard work, and a great deal of love and care. Be ruthless with the weeds. Pull them out before they take hold. Bring the same dedication to your marriage that you do to your gardens and everything will be all right. Remember that a marriage has to be constantly replenished too, if you want it to flourish.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
Alan Alda
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Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy.
Leopold Kronecker
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Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
Louis Nizer
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I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
J. C. Ryle
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Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.
Quentin Crisp
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I guess I was a little bit nervous, because there seemed to be so much secrecy with Ben Stiller wanting to make sure that it was a surprise when we walked out on the Valentino runway. I remember showing up at Place Vendôme and doing the fitting and seeing the pajamas that I was going to wear - which I like very much - and seeing Ben arrive kind of in disguise.
Owen Wilson
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One of the things that's exciting for me about this novel is that, to me, Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron were both, in certain regards, crypto-steampunk. They're both books that are interested in an alternate technological past that in fact didn't historically come to pass. If you were to ask me what my novels were about, I would say, well, these are novels about technology and how we relate to technology and what technology means.
Emily Barton
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Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and novel-reading, and crochet-needle, and the occasional manufacture of sponge cake.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.
Aristotle
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However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
William Golding
