Witter Bynner Quotes
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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We went to church twice a week. My parents were employed in ministry; we prayed before dinner. We rollerbladed in the summer. We were allowed to watch the 'Simpsons.' I fought with my younger brother over Legos.
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No day is alike, nor should it be.
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You get religion as your hair turns grey.
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Real life is about reacting quickly to the opportunity at hand, not the opportunity you envisioned. Not thinking and scheming for the future, but letting it happen.
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When people do bad things intentionally, they know they've done them. But it's not to be cared about. That's the problem with the tabloid press; they dramatize these things until there's a state of frenzy. People see frenzy and they go, "What?" Then they clamor toward the frenzy. We all do it. It's a primal, natural response.
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Transformation always and necessarily calls for a transformation of oneself and one's environment. But I don't see that happening. People are stuck with their own positions that never change.
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The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism.
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We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.
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Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was - there's no doubt about it. There's never been anybody since. He's one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.
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Do I know what rhetorical means?
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Self-love is so monogamous that no one is going to take the trouble to break the affair up for you.
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I am concentrating on my fitness levels so that I don't look old.
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Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.
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You are the only person you can actually change.
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I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.
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I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?
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The floor is milk, churn it and make it butter.
