Ariana Franklin Quotes
Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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In fiction, there happens to be a long history of creative engagement with marginality, with the very human components of society that others don't want to think about, from writers such as Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud to Genet and Sarrazin and right on up to Norman Mailer.
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I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.
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I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.
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Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.
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Heartbreak taught me that you can rise from the ashes and get over .
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We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.
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Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.
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The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.
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Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them.
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Worry is the product of a future that we cannot guarantee and guilt is the product of a past we cannot change.
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Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
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My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.
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I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.
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The War is not over and the one that is, or the part of it, has been largely lost. But it is of course wrong to fall into such a mood, for Wars are always lost, and War always goes on; and it is no good growing faint.
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I think it's really important to have inter-generational relationships right; some level of communication between us silver-backed gorillas, who have been looking at and working on these problems for years, and the next generation of problem-solvers. And it's happening. So it's a very exciting time because of it. And a lot of the young people I'm working with, it's very exciting. Their enthusiasm, the revolutionary nature of what they're doing, what they're being driven by.
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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities; but I have that honorable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown.
