Caryl Chessman (Caryl Whittier Chessman) Quotes
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I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, what's the point?
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.
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My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
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'Everywhere you look it unpacks to infinity. What you look for, you find. And you people can have it. All of it.'The comfortable generosity of this offer puzzled Kearney, so he decided to ignore it. It seemed meaningless anyway.
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~You know how parents rattle on to you about, 'Oh, you won't believe your life will never be the same,' and you think, Why can't these people just get over it? All they're doing is yakking about their kids. It's such a bore. And then you have kids and you just want to do the same thing.~
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It doesn't make sense that Arizona's prices should suddenly jump up higher than California's, ... Arizonans deserve real answers.
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Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?
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Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
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Happiest time of youth and life, when love is first spoken and returned; when the dearest eyes are daily shining welcome, and the fondest lips never tire of whispering their sweet secrets; when the parting look that accompanies "Good night!" gives delightful warning of tomorrow.
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If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.
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For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?
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A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.
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I have had a life in which I have had to face every big fear, and it has not been pleasant.
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Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features Are brought up, others by a warlike leader; Some by a place--as tend their years or natures; The most by ready cash--but all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.
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What we have here, fellow citizens, is a crassly egocentric, raving twit.
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Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.
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I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.
