Bette Greene Quotes
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Western governments have generally tried to contain genocide by appeasing its architects. But the sad record of the last century shows that the walls the United States tries to build around genocidal societies almost inevitably shatter.
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A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear.
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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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We're looking for stuff everyone agrees is a complete waste of time. Many agencies have forgotten how to deregulate. It's been so long since somebody asked them to look backwards.
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Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.
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I don't believe I've ever played a hip dude. I don't think I would have the wherewithal to do that.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.
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I have a passion for animals and spend a lot of my spare time working with various organizations here in Toronto.
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He said people are starting to wonder about us,
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Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.
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In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.
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For if we are bidden to honor carnal fathers and mothers, how much more the spiritual? ... If this virtue of charity has been overlooked, a man will lose any fruit of salvation in any good he may do.
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Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.
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I don't believe that a writer does something wonderful spontaneously. I believe it's the result of years of living, of study, reading, his very personality and temperament. At one particular moment, all these come together and the artist 'expresses' himself.
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Title I dollars are well spent. They are really making a difference in the education of students.
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Longevity can't be the only test of love.
