Bill Konigsberg Quotes
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I wasn't angry with God that I lost my husband. I was devastated; I was broken. I still am, in many ways. But I feel like God gives free will to everyone, and people who want to choose evil, they have that same free will.
Taya Kyle
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A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.
Pat Metheny
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I have now so many fundamental thoughts, so many really metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write more, not to think more, but allow the fever of saying to make me sleepy, and fondle, with closed eyes, as if to a cat, all that I could have said.
Fernando Pessoa
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It's hard to come back from the Balkans and not sound like a Pete Seeger song.
P. J. O'Rourke
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How poet and public stared at each other with righteous indignation, till the poet said, 'Since you won’t read me, I’ll make sure you can’t' - is one of the most complicated and interesting of stories.
Randall Jarrell
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'I think the Moon is a world like this one, and the Earth is its moon.' My friends greeted this with a burst of laughter. 'And maybe,' I told them, 'someone on the Moon is even now making fun of someone else who says that our globe is a world.'
Cyrano de Bergerac
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Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.
Alan J. Pakula
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Maybe I'm not a good enough artist that people just think of me. Maybe in the future, I'll bloom into something that will just make people look at me for what I am.
Jeff Buckley
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When you are in a long relationship, sometimes you forget who you are, what you love to do.
Meredith Ostrom
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We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But this means being: Loving as he loves, helping as he helps, giving as he gives, serving as he serves, rescuing as he rescues, being with him all 24 hours of the day, touching him in his distressing disguise.
Mother Teresa
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The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
Mignon McLaughlin
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And I think, What’s the opposite of suffocation?
Bill Konigsberg