William Styron Quotes
In Vineyard Haven, on Martha's Vineyard, mostly I love the soft collision here of harbor and shore, the subtly haunting briny quality that all small towns have when they are situated on the sea
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Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.
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Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
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The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.
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I love New York, I love the smell of New York... I love the subway.
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He's a threat to win until his brain turns to tapioca.
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There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
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It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.
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I have my golden retriever now, Pontiac. He's a career-change guide dog from Guide Dogs for the Blind.
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There's so much information and journalism on television. We have too much to absorb.
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When you set the right targets, aspirations, and you work efficiently and diligently, the numbers happen.
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
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I thought it'd be cool to start my own university, in a way.
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A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary.
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It's life, so you're a constant evolution of tragedies and achievements and ups and downs. You can probably get a little bit more immune to things, but whatever is the most amount of pain you feel at any given moment feels like the most amount of pain you'll ever feel.
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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Well I don't want to talk about myself, that's so rude and egotistical.
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You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete. People always say to me, 'Your image is this, your image is that.' Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person. That's what I worry about.
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I'm terrible with big parties.
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When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the floor, or the music that numbs your teeth, or even the bottle of capless shampoo dribbling down the shower drain. They're upset because they've gone from supervisor of a child's life to a spectator. It's like being the vice president of the United States.
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Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
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If you want to do rock and roll, forget about those who've come after '65.
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A poem begins with a lump in the throat.
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In Vineyard Haven, on Martha's Vineyard, mostly I love the soft collision here of harbor and shore, the subtly haunting briny quality that all small towns have when they are situated on the sea
