Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
Jack Kilby
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
Zhang Ziyi
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Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.
Walter Pater
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Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.
Umberto Eco
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You know yourself, once you've had the excitement of riding thoroughbreds, it's not very interesting riding anything else. But I still love horses; I just don't have one any more.
Kate Thompson
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I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.
Camryn Manheim
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What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.
Heraclitus
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Once, long ago, Parminder had told Barry the story of Bhai Kanhaiya, the Sikh hero who had administered to the needs of those wounded in combat, whether friend or fo. When asked why he gave aid indiscriminately, Bahai Kanhaiya had replied that the light of God shone from every soul, and that he had been unable to distinguish between them.
Joanne Rowling
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Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am leaving Europe. The sea air will burn my lungs. Lost climates will tan me. I will swim, trample the grass, hung, and smoke especially. I will drink alcohol as strong as boiling metal--just as my dear ancestors did around their fires.
Arthur Rimbaud
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Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
Plato
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Love is the light that you see by.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
