Arthur Morrison Quotes
But in the end the truth prevails, if it be well set forth; and the schoolmen, groaning in their infinite labour, wearily write another prescription, admit another precedent, and make another pigeon-hole.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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I'm not super into sports.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.
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Every role is a new form of surrender.
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Facebook and Instagram are spiritual brothers.
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It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important.
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I was definitely surrounded by music and fashion at a very, very young age.
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A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?
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'You will be very welcome,' answered Dorothy, 'for you will help to keep away the other wild beasts. It seems to me they must be more cowardly than you are if they allow you to scare them so easily.' 'They really are,' said the Lion, 'but that doesn't make me any braver, and as long as I know myself to be a coward I shall be unhappy.'
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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
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Tupac is taking the message to black kids and a lot of white kids, going 'This shit's happening on the streets.' Well, I'm from a different part of the black community. Why is Orleans Woods in Charleston, South Carolina, less 'valid' than Compton?
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God is a great concept, but it doesn't work
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The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
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I've never had the impertinence to be sorry for Helen Keller. I'd as soon be sorry for Niagara Falls. But now as I bring the story up to date, I'm shriveled with shame when I recall that at times in my life - my easy life - I've actually been sorry for myself. You too? We've got our nerve, haven't we?
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A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.
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But in the end the truth prevails, if it be well set forth; and the schoolmen, groaning in their infinite labour, wearily write another prescription, admit another precedent, and make another pigeon-hole.
