Alexander Whyte Quotes
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Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
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And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.
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He who hath bent him o'er the deadEre the first day of death is fled,-The first dark day of nothingness,The last of danger and distress,Before decay's effacing fingersHave swept the lines where beauty lingers.
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True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.
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When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.
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I had lived in France before graduate school, but because of Spain, I had a lot of the characters go and spend a good bit of time in Spain.
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You can’t be a progressive and be opposed to pension reform.
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The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
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I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
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I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature.
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Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners.
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But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.
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The ass bears the load, but not the overload.
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Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.
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Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context.
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The opposite of every truth is just as true.
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Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.
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When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.
