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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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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I feel that blackboard needs to be improved and especially for new users, it can be really difficult to learn the basics. And I really wish they would do something about our overpriced books.
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One man is a splendid fighter -- a god has made him so -- one's a dancer, another skilled at lyre and song, and deep in the next man's chest farseeing Zeus plants the gift of judgment, good clear sense. And many reap the benefits of that treasure.
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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O, high the happy bosom heaves When love is in the dancer!
