Reynolds Price Quotes
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If you deny the existence of your fault or error, it will strengthen its hold over you.
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A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval.
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Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on, Muted yet fiery.--Vita Sackville-West
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Trade is a social act.
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Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts.
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It is certainly not then-not in dreams- but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction.
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When the Negro finds the courage to be free, he faces dogs and guns and clubs and fire hoses totally unafraid, and the white men with those dogs, guns, clubs and fire hoses see that the Negro they have traditionally called "boy" has become a man.
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You can make your life whatever you want it to be.
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One of the very first poems I wrote was Docker That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic and one of the sturdiest was Requiem for the Croppies, written 50 years after 1916 the year of the Easter Rising. Being responsible and what it means, what it demands, have indeed preoccupied me maybe too much. But this is it, this is the thing, this is what you're up against.
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I believe that Islam and freedom are incompatible.
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We did work together surprisingly well, more than I thought we would, because I didn't know before we met if we would actually work together really well, and we had a great time.
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I am in regular contact with Prime Minister [Shinzo] Abe. We have met several times this year [2016].
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[When Harry Met Sally] was fine, but it was a job. And I did it right after The 'Burbs.
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I've spent my life making blunders.
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If you know Hillary Clinton, you know this is a woman who has never shied away from a fight.
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I've met little meanness, wherever I went.
