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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The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.
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Never water down the Word of God, but preach it in its undiluted sternness. There must be unflinching faithfulness to the Word of God, but when you come to personal dealings with others, remember who you are- you are not some special being created in heaven, but a sinner saved by grace.
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Angels cannot preach the gospel, only beings such as Paul and you and I can preach the gospel.
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You tie me up in knots. I want to play you a thousand different songs so you can get a clue of what... I feel inside me.
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You’re not likely to err by practicing too much of the cross.
