William Hazlitt Quotes
The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
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California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.
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I'm not going to be horrible just for the sake of having attitude or make other people feel small just to make me feel bigger.
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I'm totally myself.
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Here's an idea: Spend two or three hours a day at least five days a week in front of a bookstore wearing a sandwich board with your bookcover on it while you chase and chat with anyone you can corral and who is willing to talk to you.
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Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
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I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.
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I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently.
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Anything is respectable in its own realm.
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The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.
